The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the other way around, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a bigger ambition to wager, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For nearly all of the locals living on the tiny local earnings, there are two established forms of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the chances of profiting are unbelievably low, but then the winnings are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that most do not purchase a ticket with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pander to the incredibly rich of the state and tourists. Up until recently, there was a very big vacationing industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime have cut into this trade.
Among 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 Casino, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two 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 has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has come about, it is not understood how healthy the vacationing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry through till things improve is simply not known.