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The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could think that there might be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the awful market conditions creating a bigger ambition to bet, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way from the problems.
For the majority of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are two dominant styles of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also extremely big. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that most do not purchase a card with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the UK soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pander to the exceedingly rich of the nation and tourists. Until a short time ago, there was a exceptionally large sightseeing business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected bloodshed have cut 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 hall, which has only slots. 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, the pair 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 pair of which has video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has deflated by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has arisen, it isn’t well-known how well the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive till conditions improve is basically not known.