The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a greater desire to bet, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For many of the people subsisting on the tiny local earnings, there are 2 popular styles of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the chances of winning are extremely small, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that many do not purchase a ticket with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the society and tourists. Up until recently, there was a extremely big sightseeing business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated conflict have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two 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 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 gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not understood how well the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through until things improve is merely not known.