The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could envision that there might be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be working the other way, with the crucial economic circumstances leading to a larger desire to gamble, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For the majority of the citizens surviving on the meager local wages, there are two dominant types of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of winning are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the idea that the lion’s share do not buy a ticket with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, cater to the exceedingly rich of the state and vacationers. Up till not long ago, there was a incredibly big tourist business, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated conflict have cut 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 slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not well-known how well the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on till things improve is merely not known.