The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the critical economic conditions creating a greater ambition to bet, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the situation.
For the majority of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local earnings, there are two established types of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the chances of winning are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also remarkably large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that the majority don’t buy a card with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the English football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, mollycoddle the considerably rich of the society and travelers. Until a short time ago, there was a extremely big vacationing business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated violence have carved into this market.
Amongst 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 gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has arisen, it is not understood how well the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry on until things improve is merely unknown.