The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you may think that there might be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be operating the other way, with the crucial economic circumstances leading to a bigger desire to wager, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For nearly all of the locals surviving on the tiny nearby earnings, there are 2 dominant styles of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the odds of profiting are extremely tiny, but then the jackpots are also extremely big. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the concept that the majority do not buy a card with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the considerably rich of the state and tourists. Until a short time ago, there was a extremely big tourist industry, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected violence have cut into this trade.
Among 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 hall, which has just the slots. 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, both of which offer table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite 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 municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has deflated by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has cropped up, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around till conditions get better is simply unknown.
