The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there might be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a larger eagerness to play, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For many of the locals surviving on the tiny local earnings, there are 2 popular forms of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of profiting are surprisingly small, but then the winnings are also very large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the concept that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pander to the astonishingly rich of the state and travelers. Up until a short time ago, there was a very substantial sightseeing business, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected conflict have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not understood how well the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on till conditions get better is merely not known.
