The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could envision that there would be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be functioning the opposite way around, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a larger ambition to play, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the locals living on the meager local money, there are two established styles of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of profiting are surprisingly small, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the concept that many don’t buy a ticket with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the state and vacationers. Until not long ago, there was a considerably substantial vacationing industry, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has resulted, it is not known how well the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will survive until things get better is simply unknown.