The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could think that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the critical market circumstances creating a higher eagerness to play, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For almost all of the people surviving on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 dominant forms of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of profiting are extremely small, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that many don’t purchase a ticket with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is based on either the local or the English football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, cater to the astonishingly rich of the state and tourists. Up until recently, there was a incredibly large sightseeing business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated violence have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 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 machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will still be around till things get better is simply not known.