The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the critical market conditions creating a higher desire to play, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For almost all of the citizens surviving on the tiny local money, there are two common types of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of winning are extremely tiny, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by financial experts who study the subject that most don’t buy a ticket with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the United Kingston football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, pander to the considerably rich of the society and tourists. Up till recently, there was a incredibly big sightseeing business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has resulted, it isn’t well-known how healthy the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive until conditions get better is basically not known.