The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could think that there would be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the desperate market circumstances creating a greater desire to bet, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For nearly all of the people living on the meager nearby wages, there are 2 common styles of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of hitting are surprisingly small, but then the winnings are also remarkably high. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that most don’t purchase a card with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, pamper the very rich of the state and tourists. Until a short while ago, there was a very large tourist business, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected bloodshed have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has come about, it is not understood how well the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will survive until things improve is merely not known.
