The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the critical market circumstances leading to a bigger ambition to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For many of the citizens subsisting on the meager nearby wages, there are two common styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the odds of succeeding are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that many do not buy a card with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, look after the astonishingly rich of the nation and travelers. Up till not long ago, there was a considerably big tourist business, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has come about, it is not understood how well the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will survive till conditions improve is basically not known.
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