Zimbabwe gambling dens
The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the awful economic circumstances leading to a bigger ambition to play, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For the majority of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are 2 established styles of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are surprisingly small, but then the prizes are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that the lion’s share do not purchase a card with a real belief of winning. Zimbet is based on either the local or the British football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the very rich of the nation and sightseers. Up until a short while ago, there was a exceptionally large sightseeing business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has arisen, it isn’t understood how healthy the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry on until conditions get better is basically not known.