The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could think that there would be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be operating the other way, with the desperate market conditions leading to a greater desire to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For the majority of the locals living on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 dominant forms of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of winning are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also very big. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that the lion’s share do not purchase a card with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the extremely rich of the state and travelers. Up until a short time ago, there was a very substantial sightseeing business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected conflict have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second 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 connected poverty and violence that has resulted, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on till things improve is basically not known.