The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there might be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be working the other way, with the critical economic conditions creating a larger eagerness to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the situation.
For almost all of the people subsisting on the meager local money, there are 2 common forms of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of winning are remarkably low, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the subject that most don’t buy a ticket with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the country and vacationers. Up till recently, there was a considerably big tourist business, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated conflict have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has come to pass, it is not known how well the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around until conditions get better is basically not known.
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