The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you may think that there would be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the desperate economic conditions leading to a greater eagerness to play, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For the majority of the citizens living on the meager local wages, there are 2 popular forms of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of profiting are extremely small, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by economists who understand the idea that the majority don’t buy a ticket with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the British soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the nation and sightseers. Until a short while ago, there was a incredibly large tourist industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated bloodshed have carved into this market.
Amongst 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 just the 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 two of which offer table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has resulted, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will survive until things get better is simply not known.
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