The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could think that there might be little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the critical market conditions leading to a higher eagerness to play, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For almost all of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local earnings, there are 2 established forms of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of profiting are extremely low, but then the winnings are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that many do not purchase a ticket with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the astonishingly rich of the country and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a very large vacationing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated violence have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t known how well the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive until things get better is simply not known.