The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could envision that there would be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the awful market circumstances leading to a bigger eagerness to wager, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For many of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are two popular forms of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the chances of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the winnings are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that the majority don’t buy a ticket with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pamper the extremely rich of the society and sightseers. Until a short time ago, there was a very large sightseeing industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime have cut 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 one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer gaming 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 country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has deflated by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has arisen, it isn’t known how well the vacationing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will still be around till things get better is merely unknown.
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