19 Feb 24

The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there would be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the atrocious market circumstances creating a greater ambition to bet, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way from the situation.

For nearly all of the citizens subsisting on the meager nearby earnings, there are 2 dominant types of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of winning are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that most do not buy a card with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pander to the exceedingly rich of the country and vacationers. Up till a short time ago, there was a exceptionally large tourist industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated violence have cut into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 den, which has only slot machines. 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, the pair of which offer gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has slot machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has deflated by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has cropped up, it isn’t known how well the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive till conditions get better is simply not known.


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