The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might envision that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the crucial economic conditions creating a higher desire to gamble, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the problems.
For almost all of the people subsisting on the abysmal local earnings, there are two dominant forms of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the odds of hitting are surprisingly low, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that the majority don’t purchase a card with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the UK soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pamper the considerably rich of the country and tourists. Up until recently, there was a incredibly big tourist business, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated crime have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slots 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 offer slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has contracted by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has resulted, it is not known how healthy the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions improve is merely unknown.
