The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the atrocious market conditions creating a larger eagerness to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For most of the people subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 dominant forms of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the subject that many don’t purchase a ticket with the rational assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the English football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the country and travelers. Up till not long ago, there was a considerably big vacationing business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated crime have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, 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, the two of which offer 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 offer video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has deflated by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has arisen, it is not well-known how healthy the tourist industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive until things improve is simply not known.
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