The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could envision that there would be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the awful economic conditions leading to a greater ambition to bet, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For the majority of the people living on the tiny local wages, there are two popular types of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also extremely high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the idea that many don’t buy a card with the rational expectation of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the UK soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the very rich of the nation and vacationers. Up till recently, there was a considerably big tourist industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive until things get better is merely not known.
November 3rd, 2019
Nathanial
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