The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you may imagine that there might be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a greater ambition to gamble, to try and find a quick win, a way from the situation.
For many of the people surviving on the tiny nearby money, there are 2 dominant styles of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the chances of winning are remarkably tiny, but then the winnings are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the subject that the majority do not buy a card with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on either the local or the UK football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the state and vacationers. Up till not long ago, there was a extremely large vacationing industry, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated crime have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker 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 tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has diminished by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has arisen, it is not understood how healthy the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through till conditions improve is merely not known.
