23 May 23

The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could think that there would be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the desperate economic conditions leading to a higher ambition to wager, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the difficulty.

For almost all of the people subsisting on the tiny local earnings, there are two established forms of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of winning are surprisingly tiny, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who understand the concept that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the UK football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, look after the astonishingly rich of the state and travelers. Until a short while ago, there was a considerably substantial vacationing industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated conflict have carved into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer 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 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 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has shrunk by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has come to pass, it is not known how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions improve is simply not known.


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