The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you may think that there might be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the atrocious market conditions creating a bigger desire to bet, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For nearly all of the locals living on the tiny local money, there are 2 common styles of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the chances of winning are extremely small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that many do not purchase a card with an actual expectation of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pamper the incredibly rich of the society and tourists. Until not long ago, there was a exceptionally substantial tourist business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated crime have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how healthy the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive until things improve is simply unknown.
