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 appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the crucial economic conditions leading to a bigger eagerness to bet, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For nearly all of the citizens subsisting on the tiny nearby wages, there are two dominant types of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are unbelievably tiny, but then the winnings are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the idea that the majority don’t purchase a card with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the English football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the society and tourists. Up till a short time ago, there was a very big tourist business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair 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 slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has come to pass, it is not understood how healthy the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will still be around till things improve is merely unknown.
