Oct 062008
[ English ]

The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be operating the other way, with the crucial economic circumstances leading to a greater eagerness to gamble, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the situation.

For almost all of the citizens surviving on the abismal nearby earnings, there are 2 established forms of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the chances of profiting are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also very large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the concept that the majority do not buy a ticket with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the national or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, cater to the exceedingly rich of the state and vacationers. Up until recently, there was a very big tourist business, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated bloodshed have carved into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Centre in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has video poker machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the market has diminished by beyond 40 percentin the past few years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how healthy the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive until conditions improve is merely unknown.

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