15 Sep 20

The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there would be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be functioning the opposite way around, with the crucial economic circumstances leading to a higher desire to wager, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the situation.

For almost all of the people subsisting on the tiny local money, there are 2 dominant forms of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the chances of profiting are extremely tiny, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the concept that the lion’s share don’t buy a card with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the English football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, mollycoddle the very rich of the nation and travelers. Up till recently, there was a incredibly substantial tourist industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer 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 pair of which offer gaming machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the market has contracted by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and crime that has come about, it isn’t known how healthy the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive till things improve is basically not known.


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