The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you may envision that there might be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a greater eagerness to wager, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way from the situation.
For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the tiny nearby wages, there are two dominant forms of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the chances of hitting are remarkably small, but then the winnings are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that most don’t buy a card with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pamper the very rich of the nation and tourists. Up till a short time ago, there was a extremely substantial vacationing industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected violence have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, 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, both of which have table games, slot machines 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 tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not known how healthy the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on until conditions improve is simply unknown.