The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may think that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the atrocious market circumstances creating a higher ambition to bet, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For almost all of the citizens living on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 established forms of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the chances of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the winnings are also remarkably large. It’s been said by economists who understand the concept that the majority don’t buy a ticket with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the national or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the exceedingly rich of the society and sightseers. Up until recently, there was a very large sightseeing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected violence have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 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 slot machine games. 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 contain gaming tables, 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 have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has come to pass, it is not 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 until things get better is merely unknown.
