The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may imagine that there would be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the crucial economic conditions creating a higher ambition to bet, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the problems.
For many of the locals living on the meager nearby money, there are two dominant styles of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the chances of profiting are remarkably low, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that most don’t buy a card with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the English football leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the society and travelers. Until a short time ago, there was a considerably large vacationing business, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed have carved 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 slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machines. 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, the pair of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has resulted, it is not known how healthy the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive till things get better is merely not known.