The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could envision that there might be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the awful market circumstances leading to a higher desire to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way from the situation.
For almost all of the people living on the meager nearby wages, there are two common types of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the chances of winning are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also extremely high. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that many do not buy a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the English football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the country and sightseers. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably substantial vacationing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected violence have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain 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 gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not well-known how healthy the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around until things improve is basically not known.
