Zimbabwe gambling dens
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be operating the opposite way, with the desperate market conditions creating a bigger eagerness to play, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For almost all of the locals subsisting on the tiny local earnings, there are two dominant forms of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of winning are extremely small, but then the winnings are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the subject that the majority don’t buy a ticket with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pamper the extremely rich of the country and tourists. Up till a short while ago, there was a considerably large tourist business, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated crime have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, slot machines and video poker 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 blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 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 deflated by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t known how healthy the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive till conditions get better is basically unknown.
