The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could envision that there might be very little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be working the other way around, with the critical market circumstances creating a larger desire to gamble, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For almost all of the locals subsisting on the abysmal nearby wages, there are 2 dominant types of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are extremely tiny, but then the prizes are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that most do not buy a card with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the British soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, look after the astonishingly rich of the state and tourists. Until not long ago, there was a very large vacationing business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected crime have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has resulted, it isn’t well-known how well the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will be alive until things improve is basically unknown.
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