The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you may envision that there might be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the awful economic conditions creating a higher eagerness to gamble, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For nearly all of the locals subsisting on the tiny local wages, there are 2 common types of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the chances of hitting are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the concept that the majority do not purchase a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the UK soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, look after the exceedingly rich of the state and tourists. Up till recently, there was a extremely large tourist business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected crime have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not understood how healthy the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around until things get better is merely unknown.
