The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may envision that there would be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the crucial market circumstances creating a greater desire to play, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way from the situation.
For many of the locals subsisting on the tiny local wages, there are 2 dominant types of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of hitting are surprisingly small, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by economists who understand the subject that most don’t buy a card with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the UK soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the astonishingly rich of the nation and travelers. Up till a short time ago, there was a very large sightseeing industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected bloodshed have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the 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, both of which have gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has shrunk by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has resulted, it is not well-known how healthy the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry on until conditions get better is simply not known.
