The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the critical market circumstances leading to a higher desire to gamble, to try and find a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For the majority of the locals subsisting on the meager local money, there are 2 common forms of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of hitting are extremely tiny, but then the prizes are also extremely large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that most don’t buy a ticket with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the British football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the extremely rich of the nation and vacationers. Until a short while ago, there was a considerably substantial tourist industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected crime have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits 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 slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has contracted by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has arisen, it is not known how healthy the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will still be around until things improve is basically not known.
