The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you may imagine that there might be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the crucial economic circumstances leading to a larger eagerness to gamble, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the problems.
For almost all of the people living on the abysmal local money, there are two common types of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the chances of succeeding are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also extremely large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the concept that many do not buy a ticket with the rational assumption of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pamper the astonishingly rich of the society and tourists. Until a short while ago, there was a extremely large vacationing industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated violence have carved into this trade.
Amongst 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 den, which has just the slot machines. 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, the pair of which have gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has diminished by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has arisen, it is not well-known how well the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on till things get better is simply unknown.
