The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could think that there might be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the desperate market conditions leading to a greater desire to gamble, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For most of the locals subsisting on the tiny local money, there are two dominant types of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of winning are surprisingly low, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the concept that the majority do not buy a ticket with the rational expectation of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, pamper the incredibly rich of the society and tourists. Up till not long ago, there was a very substantial tourist business, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has contracted by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has arisen, it isn’t understood how well the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive till conditions get better is basically not known.
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