The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could envision that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the awful economic circumstances leading to a greater desire to wager, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For many of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local earnings, there are 2 dominant styles of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the odds of profiting are unbelievably low, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by economists who understand the idea that the lion’s share do not buy a card with a real belief of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pander to the astonishingly rich of the society and sightseers. Until a short time ago, there was a very big tourist industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated violence have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has resulted, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through till things improve is simply not known.
