The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the awful economic conditions leading to a bigger ambition to bet, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For many of the people surviving on the meager local money, there are 2 popular styles of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the odds of profiting are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that the majority don’t purchase a card with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the English football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pander to the extremely rich of the nation and travelers. Up till recently, there was a considerably large sightseeing industry, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated crime have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how well the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry on till things improve is basically not known.