The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be operating the other way, with the awful economic circumstances creating a larger desire to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 established forms of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of hitting are unbelievably tiny, but then the prizes are also extremely big. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the subject that the majority do not purchase a card with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the British football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, cater to the incredibly rich of the society and travelers. Until a short time ago, there was a exceptionally big vacationing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated crime have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has diminished by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t understood 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 improve is simply unknown.