Zimbabwe gambling halls
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may think that there might be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be operating the other way, with the critical economic circumstances creating a higher eagerness to bet, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For the majority of the citizens surviving on the tiny local wages, there are two dominant forms of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of profiting are extremely small, but then the prizes are also extremely large. It’s been said by economists who study the subject that many do not buy a card with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pander to the extremely rich of the country and sightseers. Until a short time ago, there was a very substantial vacationing business, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected crime have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously 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 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has shrunk by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has resulted, it isn’t known how healthy the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will survive till things improve is simply not known.
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