The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may think that there would be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the atrocious market circumstances creating a larger desire to play, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way from the problems.
For most of the people surviving on the meager local wages, there are 2 popular forms of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of hitting are surprisingly low, but then the prizes are also very high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that most don’t purchase a card with an actual assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pander to the astonishingly rich of the country and tourists. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably big tourist business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 hall, which has just the slots. 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 table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has resulted, it is not known how well the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry through till conditions get better is merely unknown.
