The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may think that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the crucial economic circumstances creating a higher desire to play, to try and find a quick win, a way from the situation.
For almost all of the people subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are 2 established forms of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of succeeding are extremely small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by economists who understand the concept that most do not buy a ticket with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the considerably rich of the country and vacationers. Up till a short time ago, there was a extremely large vacationing industry, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated crime have cut into this trade.
Amongst 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 gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has resulted, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will survive until things get better is basically not known.