The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could think that there might be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a larger eagerness to gamble, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the people subsisting on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 popular types of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of profiting are unbelievably low, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that the lion’s share don’t buy a card with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, cater to the incredibly rich of the nation and vacationers. Up till not long ago, there was a exceptionally large vacationing business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected bloodshed 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 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. 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, the two of which offer table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting 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 diminished by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has come to pass, it is not known how healthy the tourist industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through until things get better is merely not known.