The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the critical economic conditions creating a larger desire to bet, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the tiny nearby money, there are two dominant forms of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of profiting are extremely small, but then the jackpots are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the idea that many don’t purchase a ticket with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the UK soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pamper the exceedingly rich of the society and sightseers. Up till not long ago, there was a exceptionally large sightseeing industry, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated conflict have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and crime that has cropped up, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry on till conditions improve is simply unknown.
