The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you may think that there would be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the crucial market circumstances creating a larger desire to bet, to attempt to find a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For most of the citizens subsisting on the meager local earnings, there are two common styles of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of hitting are remarkably small, but then the jackpots are also very high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the very rich of the society and tourists. Up till not long ago, there was a extremely large vacationing business, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic 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 just the slot machine games. 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 two of which contain gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has cropped up, it is not known how well the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through till things improve is simply not known.