The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there would be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the crucial market conditions creating a larger desire to play, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For many of the people subsisting on the tiny local wages, there are two popular styles of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the chances of profiting are surprisingly low, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who understand the concept that the majority don’t buy a ticket with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is built on either the national or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the astonishingly rich of the nation and travelers. Up until a short while ago, there was a exceptionally large tourist business, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated 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 slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. 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, both of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has contracted by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has arisen, it is not known how well the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will survive until things improve is basically unknown.
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