The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may envision that there might be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the critical economic circumstances creating a larger desire to bet, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For most of the citizens subsisting on the tiny local earnings, there are two established forms of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of profiting are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the idea that the majority don’t buy a card with the rational expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the British football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the country and travelers. Up till recently, there was a incredibly substantial sightseeing industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected violence have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, slot machines 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 blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has resulted, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive until things get better is merely unknown.
