The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might think that there might be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the awful market conditions creating a greater eagerness to play, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For almost all of the citizens living on the tiny local money, there are two common types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of winning are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also very high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the concept that the majority don’t buy a card with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the United Kingston football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the society and sightseers. Until a short time ago, there was a incredibly large vacationing business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer 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, the pair of which have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has arisen, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through till things improve is merely unknown.
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