The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may think that there might be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be operating the other way, with the atrocious market conditions leading to a greater ambition to wager, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are two established types of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the odds of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that many do not buy a card with a real belief of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the British soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the nation and sightseers. Until a short while ago, there was a considerably big tourist business, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected conflict have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the 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 have table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has cropped up, it is not known how well the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will still be around until conditions get better is basically not known.