The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there would be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a greater ambition to gamble, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way from the situation.
For the majority of the locals living on the meager local earnings, there are 2 popular forms of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are extremely tiny, but then the prizes are also very high. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that the lion’s share do not purchase a card with the rational assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, mollycoddle the very rich of the society and tourists. Up till a short time ago, there was a extremely big sightseeing industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected crime have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t known how healthy the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will still be around till conditions get better is merely unknown.
