The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might envision that there would be little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the awful economic circumstances creating a larger ambition to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For almost all of the people surviving on the tiny local earnings, there are two established forms of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of profiting are extremely small, but then the winnings are also very high. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a card with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, mollycoddle the very rich of the country and vacationers. Up until a short time ago, there was a considerably substantial sightseeing industry, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Centre in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has contracted by more than 40%in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has come to pass, it is not known how well the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry through until things improve is basically unknown.