The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may envision that there might be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the critical economic conditions leading to a larger eagerness to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For almost all of the people surviving on the abysmal nearby earnings, there are two common forms of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are unbelievably low, but then the winnings are also remarkably high. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the idea that the majority don’t buy a card with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the national or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the very rich of the nation and sightseers. Until not long ago, there was a very large vacationing business, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated violence have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: 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 the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has cropped up, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around until conditions get better is basically unknown.