The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a greater eagerness to gamble, to try and find a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For most of the citizens subsisting on the meager nearby earnings, there are two established types of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the chances of winning are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also remarkably big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that the lion’s share do not purchase a ticket with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the United Kingston football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the astonishingly rich of the society and vacationers. Until recently, there was a exceptionally large tourist industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated violence have carved into this market.
Among 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 Casino, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has come about, it isn’t well-known how healthy the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive until things get better is simply not known.