The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could think that there might be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be working the other way, with the awful economic circumstances creating a larger eagerness to bet, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For the majority of the people subsisting on the tiny nearby wages, there are two dominant forms of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of hitting are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also extremely high. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that many don’t buy a ticket with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, cater to the considerably rich of the nation and sightseers. Up till recently, there was a very big sightseeing industry, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated bloodshed have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slots. 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, both of which contain 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 offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably 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 contracted by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has come to pass, it is not well-known how well the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will be alive until conditions get better is merely not known.