The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be working the other way, with the awful economic conditions leading to a larger ambition to gamble, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For many of the locals living on the tiny local earnings, there are 2 common types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the chances of hitting are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that many don’t purchase a card with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the very rich of the society and vacationers. Until not long ago, there was a exceptionally large vacationing industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated bloodshed have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not known how well the vacationing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around until things get better is merely not known.