The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be working the other way around, with the crucial market circumstances creating a larger eagerness to gamble, to try and find a fast win, a way from the situation.
For almost all of the people surviving on the meager nearby earnings, there are 2 dominant styles of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of hitting are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that the majority do not purchase a ticket with an actual assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the British soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, mollycoddle the very rich of the country and tourists. Until a short while ago, there was a incredibly big sightseeing industry, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected violence have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two 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 machines. 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 have gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has resulted, it is not understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around till things get better is basically not known.
