The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the desperate economic conditions creating a bigger eagerness to bet, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the situation.
For almost all of the citizens surviving on the tiny local earnings, there are 2 dominant styles of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also very large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that most do not purchase a card with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the UK football leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the very rich of the country and travelers. Until recently, there was a considerably large vacationing industry, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain 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 video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has deflated by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has resulted, it isn’t understood how well the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry through till conditions get better is merely unknown.