The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be very little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a larger desire to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal nearby wages, there are 2 common types of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of profiting are remarkably tiny, but then the winnings are also remarkably large. It’s been said by economists who study the idea that many don’t purchase a card with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pamper the exceedingly rich of the country and tourists. Up until a short time ago, there was a considerably large vacationing business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated conflict 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 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 contain table games, 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 offer slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also 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 market has diminished by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has arisen, it is not understood how well the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on until things improve is basically not known.
September 21st, 2020
Callie
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