The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you may think that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the other way, with the desperate economic circumstances leading to a larger desire to gamble, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For most of the people subsisting on the tiny local earnings, there are two popular types of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the chances of succeeding are surprisingly low, but then the prizes are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the subject that many don’t purchase a ticket with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the British football divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, look after the astonishingly rich of the state and sightseers. Up till a short while ago, there was a considerably substantial tourist industry, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through till conditions improve is simply unknown.