The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the crucial economic circumstances leading to a bigger desire to play, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the meager nearby wages, there are two common styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of succeeding are remarkably small, but then the winnings are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a ticket with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the British football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, mollycoddle the considerably rich of the nation and travelers. Up till a short while ago, there was a incredibly substantial tourist business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated crime have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated 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 second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has arisen, it is not well-known how well the vacationing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive until things improve is basically unknown.