The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be working the other way, with the desperate market conditions leading to a higher desire to bet, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For almost all of the citizens surviving on the tiny local wages, there are 2 common forms of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the chances of winning are extremely low, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by economists who study the subject that the majority don’t purchase a ticket with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the domestic or the British football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, look after the astonishingly rich of the society and tourists. Up until not long ago, there was a very substantial vacationing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how healthy the sightseeing 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 basically not known.
