The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the crucial market circumstances leading to a greater desire to bet, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For the majority of the citizens subsisting on the meager nearby earnings, there are two common styles of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of profiting are unbelievably small, but then the winnings are also remarkably big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a card with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the UK football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pander to the extremely rich of the nation and travelers. Up till a short time ago, there was a extremely large tourist business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected violence have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has come to pass, it is not well-known how well the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will still be around until things improve is basically not known.