The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there might be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the awful market circumstances creating a bigger desire to play, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For many of the citizens subsisting on the meager nearby money, there are 2 popular forms of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of winning are surprisingly tiny, but then the jackpots are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the concept that many do not buy a card with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the British football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the astonishingly rich of the society and sightseers. Up till recently, there was a extremely large vacationing business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated violence have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has resulted, it is not understood how healthy the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive till things improve is basically not known.
