The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may imagine that there would be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be working the other way, with the awful economic circumstances creating a bigger ambition to gamble, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For nearly all of the locals subsisting on the tiny local money, there are 2 dominant styles of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the concept that many don’t buy a card with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the astonishingly rich of the nation and vacationers. Up until not long ago, there was a very large vacationing business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has contracted by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it is not well-known how well the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive until conditions get better is merely unknown.
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