17 Nov 15

[ English ]

The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be very little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a bigger ambition to wager, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.

For almost all of the locals living on the meager nearby wages, there are two popular types of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the chances of winning are surprisingly small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by economists who study the subject that most do not buy a card with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, look after the extremely rich of the society and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a exceptionally big tourist industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated conflict have carved into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the market has shrunk by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry on until conditions improve is merely not known.


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