The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might think that there would be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way, with the atrocious economic circumstances creating a bigger desire to wager, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For almost all of the people surviving on the tiny local earnings, there are 2 dominant forms of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of profiting are surprisingly low, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the idea that the lion’s share don’t purchase a ticket with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, cater to the very rich of the state and vacationers. Until recently, there was a incredibly substantial sightseeing industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected crime have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. 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, both of which contain table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has come to pass, it is not known how well the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on till things get better is basically unknown.
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