The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there might be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a greater desire to wager, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For almost all of the locals subsisting on the meager nearby money, there are two common styles of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that many don’t buy a ticket with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the society and travelers. Up until recently, there was a incredibly big sightseeing industry, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected crime have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only 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 have table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how well the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry on until conditions get better is simply not known.