The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might think that there would be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a larger eagerness to play, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For nearly all of the people surviving on the meager local money, there are 2 common types of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of winning are remarkably small, but then the winnings are also extremely high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the concept that many do not purchase a card with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pamper the astonishingly rich of the country and vacationers. Up until a short time ago, there was a very big vacationing industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated violence have cut into this market.
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 den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has shrunk by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has resulted, it is not understood how well the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on till things improve is merely not known.
