The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may envision that there would be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the awful market circumstances leading to a larger eagerness to play, to try and find a quick win, a way from the situation.
For the majority of the citizens living on the abysmal local money, there are 2 dominant styles of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of winning are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also extremely big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that most don’t buy a ticket with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pander to the exceedingly rich of the country and tourists. Until not long ago, there was a considerably large tourist business, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected crime have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has cropped up, it is not understood how well the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive till things get better is basically unknown.
