The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be operating the other way, with the critical market circumstances creating a bigger eagerness to wager, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For the majority of the citizens surviving on the tiny local money, there are 2 established types of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of succeeding are extremely low, but then the winnings are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that many don’t buy a card with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the British soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, cater to the astonishingly rich of the country and sightseers. Until recently, there was a extremely large sightseeing industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated crime have cut 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 one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slots. 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 pair of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has diminished by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how healthy the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive till things get better is simply not known.
