The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could envision that there would be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the desperate economic conditions leading to a greater ambition to wager, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the situation.
For almost all of the locals living on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 popular styles of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of hitting are remarkably small, but then the prizes are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the subject that many don’t purchase a ticket with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is based on either the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the country and sightseers. Up until a short time ago, there was a extremely large sightseeing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected crime have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 slot machines. 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, both of which have gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has contracted by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has resulted, it isn’t understood how well the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive until things get better is simply not known.
