The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a greater ambition to play, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For most of the locals subsisting on the tiny local earnings, there are two popular forms of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of winning are extremely small, but then the winnings are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that most don’t buy a card with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the UK soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the extremely rich of the country and sightseers. Up until not long ago, there was a extremely large vacationing industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have 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 have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how well the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through until conditions improve is simply not known.
