The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the critical market circumstances creating a larger eagerness to wager, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For nearly all of the locals living on the meager local money, there are 2 common styles of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the chances of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also extremely big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that most don’t buy a card with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the British football leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, cater to the astonishingly rich of the society and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a extremely big sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and crime that has come about, it isn’t understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive until things improve is simply unknown.
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