The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the critical market circumstances creating a bigger ambition to play, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For almost all of the citizens living on the tiny local money, there are 2 dominant types of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of winning are remarkably small, but then the winnings are also extremely large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the concept that the lion’s share don’t buy a card with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pamper the incredibly rich of the state and travelers. Up till a short time ago, there was a incredibly substantial sightseeing industry, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated violence have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, 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, both of which have gaming tables, 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 slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has come about, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive till things get better is basically not known.