The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could think that there might be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the critical market conditions creating a larger ambition to play, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For most of the locals surviving on the meager local money, there are 2 common forms of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the chances of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the winnings are also remarkably big. It’s been said by economists who understand the subject that most don’t purchase a card with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the UK football leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pander to the considerably rich of the country and tourists. Up until a short while ago, there was a very substantial sightseeing industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has contracted by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has arisen, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry through until things improve is simply not known.
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