The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the other way around, with the awful market circumstances creating a bigger ambition to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For most of the citizens living on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 common types of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of hitting are extremely small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who understand the concept that many don’t purchase a ticket with the rational assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, cater to the incredibly rich of the society and tourists. Up till a short while ago, there was a extremely big vacationing business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated crime have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and crime that has arisen, it is not known how healthy the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive until things improve is basically unknown.
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