The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may imagine that there might be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be working the other way around, with the awful economic conditions creating a higher eagerness to play, to attempt to find a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For most of the people surviving on the tiny local wages, there are 2 popular types of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the odds of winning are extremely low, but then the jackpots are also extremely high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the subject that the majority don’t purchase a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the British football leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pander to the incredibly rich of the society and vacationers. Until recently, there was a incredibly substantial vacationing industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected bloodshed have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. 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 contain table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has resulted, it isn’t well-known how healthy the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will survive till things improve is simply unknown.