The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the desperate economic circumstances leading to a greater ambition to bet, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For the majority of the locals living on the meager nearby wages, there are two common styles of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of hitting are surprisingly small, but then the prizes are also very high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that most don’t purchase a ticket with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, look after the astonishingly rich of the society and sightseers. Up till recently, there was a extremely substantial tourist business, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated crime have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 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 only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has resulted, it is not known how well the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on till things get better is merely unknown.
