The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you may envision that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the desperate economic circumstances creating a larger ambition to play, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For the majority of the people surviving on the tiny local money, there are two established styles of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of winning are unbelievably small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that many don’t buy a card with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the exceedingly rich of the society and tourists. Until a short while ago, there was a considerably large sightseeing business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has deflated by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has cropped up, it is not understood how well the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive till conditions get better is merely not known.
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