The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could think that there might be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be working the other way, with the awful economic circumstances leading to a bigger eagerness to wager, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the tiny nearby wages, there are two dominant styles of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the chances of succeeding are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that most don’t purchase a ticket with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, mollycoddle the considerably rich of the state and sightseers. Up till not long ago, there was a considerably large vacationing business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated violence have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has come about, it is not understood how healthy the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive until conditions improve is basically unknown.