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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may think that there might be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the awful market circumstances creating a larger ambition to gamble, to try and find a quick win, a way from the situation.
For nearly all of the locals living on the abysmal local money, there are two established types of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of hitting are remarkably low, but then the prizes are also extremely large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the subject that many do not purchase a card with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, cater to the astonishingly rich of the nation and travelers. Up till recently, there was a extremely large vacationing business, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated violence have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and video poker 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 tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has contracted by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive till things get better is simply not known.
