The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you may envision that there might be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the awful market circumstances leading to a larger desire to play, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the meager local money, there are two dominant styles of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of profiting are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by economists who study the subject that the majority do not purchase a card with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pander to the considerably rich of the state and vacationers. Up till recently, there was a extremely substantial vacationing industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 hall, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has contracted by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has come to pass, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive till things get better is merely unknown.