The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the atrocious market conditions leading to a greater ambition to bet, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the problems.
For the majority of the people living on the meager local money, there are 2 popular styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the odds of winning are surprisingly low, but then the prizes are also extremely big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the subject that many do not buy a card with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, look after the very rich of the nation and travelers. Until recently, there was a very big sightseeing business, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected conflict have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have 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, the pair of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has diminished by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and crime that has resulted, it is not understood how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive until conditions improve is simply not known.
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