The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be very little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be working the other way, with the critical market conditions leading to a greater desire to wager, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For nearly all of the locals living on the meager local wages, there are 2 common styles of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the chances of succeeding are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also extremely large. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that the majority don’t buy a card with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pamper the considerably rich of the state and vacationers. Up till not long ago, there was a extremely substantial sightseeing business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated violence have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming tables, one armed bandits 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 has slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t known how well the vacationing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around till conditions improve is merely unknown.
