The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might think that there might be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the critical economic circumstances creating a greater eagerness to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For nearly all of the people subsisting on the tiny local money, there are 2 popular styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of profiting are unbelievably low, but then the winnings are also very large. It’s been said by economists who look at the subject that the majority don’t purchase a card with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is based on either the local or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, look after the extremely rich of the state and travelers. Up till a short time ago, there was a considerably big vacationing business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected violence have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 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 slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, 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 has gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has deflated by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has come to pass, it is not well-known how healthy the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive till things improve is merely not known.
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