The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the awful economic circumstances creating a greater ambition to wager, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For most of the people surviving on the meager local wages, there are 2 popular forms of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of profiting are remarkably tiny, but then the jackpots are also very large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that many don’t purchase a ticket with the rational expectation of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pamper the considerably rich of the state and tourists. Up till recently, there was a incredibly big sightseeing industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected violence have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has deflated by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around till conditions get better is merely unknown.