The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be working the other way around, with the crucial economic conditions leading to a bigger desire to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the meager local earnings, there are two common types of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of hitting are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also extremely large. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a card with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the national or the United Kingston football leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, cater to the extremely rich of the society and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a very large sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected violence have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, 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, the two of which contain gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has resulted, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on until things improve is simply unknown.