Zimbabwe Casinos
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be functioning the opposite way around, with the crucial market circumstances leading to a greater eagerness to gamble, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For many of the locals subsisting on the meager nearby wages, there are two dominant types of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are surprisingly low, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that the majority don’t purchase a ticket with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pander to the extremely rich of the state and tourists. Until a short time ago, there was a exceptionally large tourist business, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected crime have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has arisen, it isn’t known how healthy the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry on until things get better is simply unknown.
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