The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may imagine that there would be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the crucial economic conditions creating a bigger desire to play, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For most of the locals subsisting on the tiny local earnings, there are 2 dominant forms of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of winning are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that most do not purchase a card with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pamper the extremely rich of the society and sightseers. Until not long ago, there was a incredibly substantial vacationing industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected violence have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very 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.
Given that the economy has deflated by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has resulted, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry through until conditions get better is basically not known.
