The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you may think that there might be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be operating the other way, with the desperate market conditions leading to a larger desire to gamble, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For many of the people surviving on the meager local earnings, there are two established types of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of winning are surprisingly low, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that the majority don’t purchase a ticket with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the English football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, look after the astonishingly rich of the state and tourists. Up until a short time ago, there was a extremely substantial sightseeing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated violence have carved into this trade.
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 slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t known how healthy the tourist industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on until things get better is simply not known.
