The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you may think that there might be very little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be working the other way, with the desperate market conditions creating a higher ambition to play, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For most of the citizens surviving on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 popular types of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the odds of winning are extremely small, but then the jackpots are also remarkably high. It’s been said by economists who study the idea that the majority do not buy a card with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the UK football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, look after the incredibly rich of the country and tourists. Until recently, there was a exceptionally large tourist industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated violence have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has contracted by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has cropped up, it is not understood how well the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry through until things get better is merely not known.
