The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you might envision that there would be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the critical economic conditions creating a bigger eagerness to wager, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the tiny local earnings, there are two dominant types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also remarkably big. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the UK football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, look after the very rich of the country and tourists. Up until recently, there was a very substantial tourist business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated violence 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 only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has contracted by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how healthy the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through till things get better is simply not known.
