The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could envision that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be working the other way around, with the crucial economic circumstances creating a greater desire to gamble, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the situation.
For many of the people living on the tiny nearby money, there are two established forms of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are surprisingly small, but then the winnings are also remarkably high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the concept that most don’t buy a ticket with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the British soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, look after the very rich of the nation and tourists. Until recently, there was a exceptionally large tourist business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated crime have carved into this trade.
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 gambling den, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, slot machines and electronic 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 table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has cropped up, it is not understood how well the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will be alive until conditions improve is basically unknown.
