The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there would be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the awful market circumstances leading to a higher ambition to wager, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For many of the people subsisting on the tiny local money, there are two dominant types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the jackpots are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that most do not purchase a card with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pamper the incredibly rich of the state and travelers. Until not long ago, there was a incredibly large tourist industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated crime have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two 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 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 pair of which have table games, one armed bandits 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 blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has deflated by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how healthy the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive till things get better is basically unknown.
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