The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could envision that there might be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the awful economic conditions creating a higher eagerness to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For many of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are two common styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of hitting are unbelievably small, but then the prizes are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who look at the subject that the lion’s share do not buy a card with the rational expectation of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the very rich of the state and sightseers. Up until not long ago, there was a very large tourist industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slot machines and video 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 halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) 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 associated poverty and violence that has come about, it isn’t known how well the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through until things get better is simply unknown.