The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be functioning the opposite way around, with the awful market conditions leading to a higher ambition to gamble, to try and find a fast win, a way from the situation.
For many of the people surviving on the abysmal local money, there are two common types of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of profiting are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also extremely large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the concept that many do not buy a card with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pamper the very rich of the nation and vacationers. Up till a short time ago, there was a extremely substantial vacationing industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated conflict have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. 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 video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has diminished by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how well the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on till things improve is merely not known.
