The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the awful economic circumstances creating a higher desire to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For almost all of the locals living on the abysmal nearby earnings, there are two popular forms of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the chances of succeeding are extremely low, but then the prizes are also remarkably high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a card with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the UK football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, cater to the exceedingly rich of the society and travelers. Until a short while ago, there was a very substantial sightseeing business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected violence have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, 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 have gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has contracted by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has come about, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through until conditions get better is basically unknown.