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The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might think that there might be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the crucial economic conditions leading to a larger ambition to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For most of the people subsisting on the tiny local wages, there are two dominant types of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the chances of winning are surprisingly small, but then the prizes are also remarkably high. It’s been said by market analysts who study the idea that the lion’s share don’t purchase a card with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the English football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, cater to the astonishingly rich of the country and travelers. Up until a short while ago, there was a very substantial sightseeing business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected conflict have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machines. 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, both of which offer gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has deflated by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has arisen, it is not known how well the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive until things improve is simply unknown.
