Zimbabwe Casinos
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might think that there would be very little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the desperate market conditions creating a higher eagerness to bet, to try and find a fast win, a way from the situation.
For the majority of the people surviving on the tiny local money, there are 2 established forms of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the chances of profiting are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also extremely large. It’s been said by economists who study the subject that most don’t purchase a ticket with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, look after the exceedingly rich of the society and travelers. Until a short time ago, there was a very large vacationing business, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected conflict have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has deflated by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has come to pass, it is not understood how well the vacationing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry on till conditions improve is simply not known.
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