The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might think that there might be little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a higher desire to gamble, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the people subsisting on the tiny local wages, there are two popular styles of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the chances of profiting are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the concept that many don’t buy a card with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the very rich of the country and sightseers. Until a short time ago, there was a considerably big sightseeing industry, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected bloodshed have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has diminished by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on until conditions get better is basically unknown.
