The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could envision that there might be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the desperate market conditions leading to a bigger ambition to wager, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For the majority of the people subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 dominant styles of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of profiting are remarkably tiny, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the subject that most do not buy a ticket with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on either the national or the British football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the state and sightseers. Up till a short time ago, there was a incredibly big sightseeing business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated conflict 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 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the 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 offer gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it isn’t known how well the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry on until conditions get better is merely not known.