The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might imagine that there might be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be working the other way around, with the desperate market conditions leading to a greater desire to play, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For most of the citizens living on the tiny local money, there are two popular forms of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the odds of profiting are remarkably tiny, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the subject that most don’t purchase a card with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pamper the very rich of the society and vacationers. Until recently, there was a very large sightseeing business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected bloodshed have carved into this trade.
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 slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, slot machines 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 video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has deflated by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has arisen, it is not known how healthy the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through until things improve is simply unknown.
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