The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may imagine that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be operating the opposite way, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a bigger ambition to play, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For almost all of the citizens surviving on the meager local wages, there are two established forms of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are remarkably small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that many don’t buy a ticket with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the UK football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the incredibly rich of the society and travelers. Up until a short while ago, there was a very large tourist business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected crime have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not known how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on until conditions improve is simply unknown.