The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could think that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the atrocious market conditions creating a bigger eagerness to play, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For many of the citizens surviving on the meager local money, there are two common types of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are extremely tiny, but then the prizes are also very high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that many don’t buy a ticket with an actual assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the British football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, look after the very rich of the society and sightseers. Up till a short time ago, there was a extremely big sightseeing industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated violence have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, slot machines and video 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 gambling halls and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how well the vacationing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on till things get better is merely not known.
