The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may think that there would be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the awful economic conditions creating a bigger eagerness to wager, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For many of the people living on the tiny local wages, there are two dominant styles of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the chances of succeeding are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the subject that the lion’s share don’t buy a card with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the British soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, cater to the considerably rich of the society and sightseers. Up till not long ago, there was a very large vacationing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated conflict have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has contracted by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and crime that has come to pass, it is not understood how well the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive till things get better is merely unknown.
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