The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the awful market circumstances leading to a greater ambition to bet, to attempt to find a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For many of the people subsisting on the tiny local wages, there are 2 popular types of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of winning are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the concept that the lion’s share don’t purchase a ticket with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is built on either the national or the British football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the society and tourists. Up till not long ago, there was a incredibly large vacationing business, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse 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 five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has 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 halls and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has diminished by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not known how healthy the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on till conditions improve is simply not known.
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