The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the awful market conditions leading to a greater ambition to bet, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For most of the people surviving on the meager local wages, there are two popular styles of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the chances of profiting are extremely tiny, but then the prizes are also extremely high. It’s been said by market analysts who study the concept that most don’t purchase a ticket with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the national or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, cater to the exceedingly rich of the nation and tourists. Up until recently, there was a considerably large vacationing business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated bloodshed have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. 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, the pair of which contain table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not understood how well the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive until things get better is basically not known.
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