The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may envision that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a larger ambition to wager, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For most of the locals subsisting on the meager local money, there are 2 common styles of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of winning are unbelievably small, but then the winnings are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by financial experts who study the subject that most do not purchase a card with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the United Kingston football leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the astonishingly rich of the society and travelers. Up until recently, there was a considerably substantial vacationing industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has diminished by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has arisen, it isn’t known how well the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry on till conditions improve is simply not known.