The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you may envision that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the critical economic circumstances leading to a bigger desire to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For nearly all of the citizens surviving on the abysmal local money, there are 2 established styles of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of profiting are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the idea that the lion’s share do not purchase a card with an actual expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pander to the astonishingly rich of the state and travelers. Until recently, there was a very substantial sightseeing industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected violence have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 Casino, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, slots and electronic poker 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 tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the state: 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% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t well-known how well the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will be alive until things get better is simply not known.
