The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could think that there would be little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be working the other way around, with the critical market conditions leading to a greater desire to wager, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For the majority of the locals surviving on the meager local money, there are 2 popular styles of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who look at the subject that the majority do not buy a card with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pander to the very rich of the state and travelers. Up till recently, there was a extremely big tourist industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected bloodshed have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has arisen, it is not known how healthy the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around until conditions get better is simply unknown.
