The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could think that there might be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a bigger ambition to wager, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For nearly all of the citizens living on the tiny local money, there are 2 established forms of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of winning are unbelievably low, but then the winnings are also remarkably big. It’s been said by economists who look at the idea that the lion’s share do not buy a ticket with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the British soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, mollycoddle the very rich of the society and sightseers. Until a short time ago, there was a extremely large sightseeing business, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected conflict have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. 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, both of which have table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has deflated by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how healthy the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on till conditions get better is merely unknown.
