The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you may envision that there might be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a higher ambition to wager, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For many of the locals living on the tiny nearby wages, there are two established types of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of hitting are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also remarkably high. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that the majority do not purchase a ticket with the rational assumption of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the English football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the exceedingly rich of the country and sightseers. Up till not long ago, there was a extremely large sightseeing industry, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected crime have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 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 just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: 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 crime that has cropped up, it is not understood how healthy the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around until things improve is basically not known.
