The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be working the other way, with the atrocious market conditions creating a higher ambition to wager, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For almost all of the citizens surviving on the tiny local money, there are two common styles of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of hitting are surprisingly low, but then the prizes are also extremely high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the society and travelers. Until not long ago, there was a considerably substantial vacationing industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected conflict have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has cropped up, it is not known how well the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry on until things get better is merely unknown.