The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might imagine that there might be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be operating the other way, with the desperate market conditions creating a bigger eagerness to gamble, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For nearly all of the people living on the meager local wages, there are two established types of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of succeeding are surprisingly tiny, but then the prizes are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the concept that the lion’s share do not purchase a ticket with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, cater to the incredibly rich of the society and travelers. Up until not long ago, there was a very large tourist industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected bloodshed have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. 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 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 have slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has arisen, it isn’t understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive until things get better is merely not known.