Zimbabwe Casinos
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the atrocious economic conditions leading to a higher ambition to play, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For many of the people subsisting on the meager local money, there are two dominant forms of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the odds of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the jackpots are also extremely large. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that most don’t buy a card with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the British soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the extremely rich of the nation and tourists. Until not long ago, there was a extremely large vacationing business, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected bloodshed have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 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 just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and crime that has arisen, it is not understood how well the tourist industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on until conditions get better is basically not known.
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