The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be working the other way, with the critical market conditions leading to a bigger eagerness to wager, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For the majority of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are 2 popular styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of succeeding are extremely low, but then the prizes are also extremely high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that most don’t buy a card with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the British football divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pamper the exceedingly rich of the country and sightseers. Until a short while ago, there was a extremely substantial sightseeing industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected violence have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. 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, both of which offer table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has cropped up, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry through till conditions get better is basically not known.
