The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the awful economic conditions leading to a bigger desire to bet, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For nearly all of the people subsisting on the tiny nearby money, there are 2 common styles of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of hitting are surprisingly small, but then the winnings are also remarkably high. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that many do not buy a ticket with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the UK soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the nation and vacationers. Up till a short while ago, there was a extremely substantial tourist industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected violence have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has come about, it is not understood how well the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive till things get better is basically not known.
