The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may envision that there would be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the desperate market conditions creating a larger eagerness to gamble, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the problems.
For nearly all of the citizens subsisting on the meager local money, there are two common forms of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of winning are extremely tiny, but then the jackpots are also extremely high. It’s been said by economists who look at the subject that most don’t purchase a card with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the domestic or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pander to the exceedingly rich of the nation and travelers. Up until recently, there was a extremely substantial sightseeing industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated crime have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer 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 two of which have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry on until conditions improve is simply not known.
