The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may think that there would be very little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the critical economic circumstances leading to a higher ambition to play, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For almost all of the locals surviving on the tiny local money, there are two dominant types of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of profiting are extremely small, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that many don’t buy a ticket with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the UK football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, cater to the incredibly rich of the society and tourists. Until a short while ago, there was a exceptionally big vacationing business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected conflict have carved 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 slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it is not understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will still be around till things improve is simply unknown.