The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may think that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be working the other way around, with the atrocious economic circumstances creating a higher eagerness to bet, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For nearly all of the locals subsisting on the tiny nearby earnings, there are 2 dominant types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the odds of profiting are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the concept that the majority don’t buy a ticket with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the country and travelers. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably substantial vacationing business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated violence have cut into this trade.
Amongst 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 just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slot machines and video 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 halls and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has resulted, it isn’t well-known how well the vacationing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around until things improve is basically not known.
