The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may think that there would be little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be working the other way around, with the awful economic conditions creating a bigger desire to gamble, to attempt to find a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For nearly all of the citizens living on the tiny nearby money, there are two established forms of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the odds of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the concept that many don’t purchase a card with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the British soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pander to the very rich of the state and travelers. Up till a short while ago, there was a considerably substantial vacationing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected conflict 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 one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has deflated by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has arisen, it is not known how healthy the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will still be around till things get better is merely not known.
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