The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might envision that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the critical economic circumstances creating a higher ambition to gamble, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For almost all of the people subsisting on the meager local money, there are two common types of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the chances of profiting are extremely small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the concept that most do not purchase a card with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the exceedingly rich of the nation and tourists. Up until recently, there was a very large tourist business, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected conflict have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has deflated by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has cropped up, it isn’t known how healthy the vacationing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry on till things improve is simply unknown.
