The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could think that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the desperate market conditions leading to a larger ambition to wager, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For many of the locals living on the abysmal local wages, there are two dominant forms of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of winning are unbelievably tiny, but then the prizes are also very high. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that most do not buy a ticket with the rational expectation of profiting. Zimbet is founded on one of the national or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the extremely rich of the society and sightseers. Up until a short time ago, there was a exceptionally big tourist industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected bloodshed have carved 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 one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. 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, both of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned mentioned 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 second metropolis) 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 is not understood how healthy the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through till conditions improve is merely not known.
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