The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could envision that there might be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the awful economic conditions leading to a bigger eagerness to play, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For almost all of the people subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are two established types of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the chances of winning are remarkably small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the idea that the lion’s share do not buy a ticket with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the English football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the state and travelers. Until a short while ago, there was a exceptionally large vacationing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated crime 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 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has deflated by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has cropped up, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through till conditions get better is simply not known.