The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you might think that there would be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be working the other way, with the atrocious economic conditions leading to a higher ambition to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For nearly all of the locals subsisting on the tiny local wages, there are 2 popular forms of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the chances of succeeding are extremely low, but then the winnings are also extremely big. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the concept that the lion’s share don’t buy a card with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the astonishingly rich of the country and sightseers. Up till a short while ago, there was a considerably large vacationing industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected violence have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two 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 just the slots. 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, the two of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits 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 offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has come to pass, it is not known how healthy the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around till conditions improve is simply unknown.