The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be working the other way around, with the critical market conditions creating a bigger desire to gamble, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For the majority of the people living on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 dominant forms of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of winning are unbelievably low, but then the winnings are also extremely high. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that most do not buy a card with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the English football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, look after the exceedingly rich of the state and sightseers. Up till recently, there was a extremely large vacationing business, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated conflict have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machines. 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, both of which contain gaming tables, slots and electronic 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 table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has contracted by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on until conditions improve is basically unknown.