The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the desperate market conditions leading to a larger ambition to play, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For almost all of the locals living on the meager local money, there are 2 popular forms of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the chances of hitting are remarkably small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that most don’t buy a ticket with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pander to the astonishingly rich of the nation and travelers. Up until not long ago, there was a incredibly big vacationing industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated bloodshed have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have 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, the pair of which has video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t well-known how healthy the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around till things get better is simply not known.