The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the crucial market conditions creating a higher desire to play, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For almost all of the locals subsisting on the tiny local earnings, there are 2 dominant styles of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of hitting are remarkably tiny, but then the jackpots are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that many do not purchase a ticket with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the UK football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, mollycoddle the very rich of the society and tourists. Up till not long ago, there was a exceptionally large tourist business, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated crime have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 Casino, which has only slot machine games. 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 have table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has arisen, it is not well-known how well the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will be alive till things improve is simply not known.
