The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the awful economic circumstances leading to a greater eagerness to wager, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way from the situation.
For most of the citizens living on the abysmal local money, there are 2 popular forms of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of profiting are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also very high. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the concept that many do not purchase a card with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the UK football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pander to the astonishingly rich of the state and tourists. Up until a short while ago, there was a exceptionally big sightseeing industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected crime have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. 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, both of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has contracted by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how well the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on till conditions get better is basically unknown.