The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you may envision that there might be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be working the other way, with the critical market circumstances leading to a higher ambition to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For almost all of the people subsisting on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 common forms of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of profiting are remarkably small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that most do not purchase a card with the rational expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the state and sightseers. Up till a short while ago, there was a very large tourist business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated violence have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has arisen, it is not known how well the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry on until conditions improve is simply unknown.
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