The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may imagine that there would be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be working the other way around, with the atrocious market conditions leading to a bigger eagerness to gamble, to attempt to find a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For many of the people living on the meager nearby earnings, there are two dominant styles of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of winning are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by financial experts who study the subject that most do not purchase a ticket with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the English football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the extremely rich of the society and vacationers. Up until not long ago, there was a very substantial vacationing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer 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, the pair of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has contracted by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has come about, it isn’t known how healthy the vacationing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on until conditions get better is simply unknown.