The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the desperate economic circumstances creating a greater eagerness to play, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For almost all of the citizens living on the meager nearby wages, there are 2 popular forms of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the chances of succeeding are extremely low, but then the jackpots are also very big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the idea that most do not buy a card with an actual assumption of profiting. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the English football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, cater to the exceedingly rich of the nation and tourists. Up till a short time ago, there was a considerably substantial vacationing industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools 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.
Since the market has diminished by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it is not well-known how well the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through until things improve is merely not known.
November 14th, 2019
Alvin
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