The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there might be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the awful market circumstances leading to a greater ambition to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For almost all of the citizens surviving on the tiny local wages, there are 2 dominant types of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the odds of succeeding are extremely tiny, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by economists who study the subject that many do not buy a ticket with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the society and vacationers. Up till recently, there was a very substantial vacationing business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated crime have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. 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 offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has come to pass, it isn’t known how well the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive till conditions improve is simply unknown.
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