The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could think that there might be little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the desperate economic conditions creating a higher ambition to gamble, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 common types of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the chances of profiting are extremely tiny, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that most do not purchase a card with the rational expectation of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the state and sightseers. Until a short while ago, there was a considerably large tourist industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 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 only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, slot machines 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 aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very 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 municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has resulted, it isn’t well-known how well the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around until things improve is simply unknown.
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