The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you may imagine that there would be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the atrocious economic conditions leading to a bigger ambition to gamble, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For nearly all of the locals subsisting on the meager local earnings, there are 2 dominant types of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of succeeding are extremely small, but then the prizes are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that the majority do not buy a ticket with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, cater to the extremely rich of the country and vacationers. Up until not long ago, there was a extremely large tourist industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated bloodshed have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, one armed bandits 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 has slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and crime that has come to pass, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive until conditions get better is merely unknown.