The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might think that there would be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be working the other way around, with the desperate market circumstances creating a greater ambition to play, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For nearly all of the people surviving on the meager local money, there are two popular forms of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the chances of winning are unbelievably tiny, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the subject that the majority do not buy a card with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the United Kingston football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, cater to the incredibly rich of the nation and travelers. Up till a short time ago, there was a considerably substantial sightseeing business, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected conflict 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 five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not known how well the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive until things get better is basically unknown.