The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could think that there might be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a bigger eagerness to play, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the problems.
For almost all of the citizens living on the meager nearby wages, there are two popular types of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the odds of winning are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by economists who understand the idea that most do not purchase a card with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, look after the very rich of the nation and sightseers. Up until a short while ago, there was a exceptionally big vacationing business, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated crime have cut 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 slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer 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 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 state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t known how well the tourist industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive until conditions improve is merely unknown.
