The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the critical market circumstances leading to a higher desire to bet, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For many of the people living on the meager local earnings, there are two popular forms of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the odds of profiting are extremely low, but then the winnings are also remarkably large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the idea that most do not purchase a ticket with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on either the local or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, mollycoddle the very rich of the country and travelers. Until not long ago, there was a incredibly big tourist industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected crime have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. 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 gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive till things get better is simply unknown.
November 9th, 2024
Francesca
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