The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may envision that there might be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the atrocious economic conditions creating a greater desire to play, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For the majority of the citizens subsisting on the tiny local wages, there are two dominant types of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the chances of winning are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also extremely high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that many don’t purchase a card with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pamper the considerably rich of the society and vacationers. Up till not long ago, there was a very big vacationing industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 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 just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has diminished by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive till conditions improve is merely not known.
