The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might envision that there might be very little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a greater ambition to wager, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For the majority of the citizens surviving on the tiny local money, there are 2 popular forms of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the chances of succeeding are remarkably small, but then the jackpots are also remarkably high. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that the majority don’t buy a ticket with an actual assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, look after the astonishingly rich of the nation and vacationers. Until recently, there was a extremely substantial sightseeing business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machines. 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, both 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 has slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has come about, it is not known how well the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on till conditions improve is simply not known.
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