The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could think that there might be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a greater eagerness to play, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the locals surviving on the tiny local money, there are 2 established types of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the chances of winning are remarkably low, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that most don’t buy a card with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the domestic or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pander to the extremely rich of the nation and sightseers. Until a short while ago, there was a very big vacationing industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected crime have cut 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 slots, 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 video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has deflated by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has arisen, it isn’t well-known how healthy the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through till things improve is merely not known.