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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the atrocious economic circumstances creating a larger desire to play, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For nearly all of the locals living on the meager nearby earnings, there are two common styles of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the chances of hitting are extremely small, but then the jackpots are also very big. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that the majority do not purchase a card with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the nation and tourists. Until a short while ago, there was a exceptionally large sightseeing industry, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated violence have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has resulted, it isn’t understood how well the tourist industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive until things get better is simply not known.
