The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may envision that there would be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the atrocious market conditions creating a higher ambition to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For almost all of the people subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are two established types of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the chances of hitting are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also remarkably big. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the concept that the lion’s share do not buy a ticket with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the UK soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, mollycoddle the considerably rich of the state and sightseers. Up till a short while ago, there was a considerably big vacationing business, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated crime have cut into this trade.
Amongst 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 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 two of which have table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has diminished by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not well-known how well the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive until things get better is simply unknown.