The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may imagine that there might be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the other way, with the desperate market conditions leading to a larger eagerness to wager, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For nearly all of the people living on the tiny local earnings, there are 2 popular forms of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of winning are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that many don’t buy a card with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is based on either the local or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pander to the very rich of the nation and tourists. Up until recently, there was a considerably big tourist industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated violence have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 only slot machine games. 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 table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has arisen, it is not understood how well the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive till things get better is merely not known.
