The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may think that there would be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the awful economic circumstances creating a greater ambition to bet, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For many of the citizens living on the tiny nearby wages, there are two established styles of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of profiting are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also extremely high. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that the lion’s share don’t purchase a ticket with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the country and tourists. Up until a short time ago, there was a incredibly large vacationing industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming 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 pools system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has diminished by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has cropped up, it is not known how well the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive until things get better is merely unknown.