The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way, with the atrocious economic conditions leading to a bigger ambition to gamble, to try and find a quick win, a way from the situation.
For the majority of the citizens surviving on the abysmal local wages, there are two popular forms of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are surprisingly tiny, but then the prizes are also very high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the subject that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with an actual expectation of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pamper the astonishingly rich of the society and travelers. Up until a short while ago, there was a extremely big tourist business, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated 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 one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. 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 contain gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of 2 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 shrunk by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t known how well the tourist industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry on until things improve is simply unknown.
