The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be working the other way around, with the atrocious economic conditions creating a bigger desire to wager, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For many of the people living on the meager nearby earnings, there are 2 established types of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are extremely low, but then the jackpots are also remarkably large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the subject that many don’t purchase a card with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the British football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, mollycoddle the incredibly rich of the state and sightseers. Up until recently, there was a very large vacationing business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated bloodshed have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, slot machines 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 has gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has deflated by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has resulted, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive until conditions improve is merely not known.
July 30th, 2019
Abigail
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