The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could envision that there would be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the awful economic conditions creating a higher desire to play, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For many of the people surviving on the tiny nearby wages, there are two common types of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of winning are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that the lion’s share do not purchase a ticket with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the English football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pander to the considerably rich of the state and sightseers. Up until not long ago, there was a considerably big sightseeing business, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. 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, the two of which offer table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has resulted, it isn’t well-known how healthy the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through till things improve is simply not known.