The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way, with the atrocious economic conditions creating a higher ambition to play, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For the majority of the locals living on the meager local wages, there are two established styles of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of profiting are unbelievably tiny, but then the prizes are also very large. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that most don’t purchase a card with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the astonishingly rich of the state and sightseers. Up till a short time ago, there was a incredibly substantial tourist business, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated crime have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are 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.
Given that the market has diminished by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has resulted, it isn’t well-known how well the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive until conditions improve is merely unknown.