The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be working the other way around, with the crucial economic conditions creating a greater eagerness to gamble, to attempt to find a fast win, a way from the problems.
For almost all of the people living on the tiny local money, there are 2 common forms of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of winning are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also very large. It’s been said by economists who study the idea that the lion’s share do not purchase a ticket with a real belief of winning. Zimbet is built on either the national or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the astonishingly rich of the society and tourists. Until a short time ago, there was a very substantial tourist industry, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected violence have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has come about, it is not understood how healthy the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions improve is merely unknown.
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