Zimbabwe gambling dens
by Hudson on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could envision that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a bigger ambition to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For nearly all of the citizens living on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 dominant forms of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of succeeding are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also very high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the subject that most don’t purchase a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pander to the astonishingly rich of the nation and tourists. Until a short while ago, there was a extremely substantial tourist business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. 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, both of which have table games, slot machines and video 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 dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has resulted, it isn’t understood how healthy the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive till conditions get better is simply unknown.
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