The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may imagine that there might be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the crucial economic conditions leading to a larger desire to wager, to try and find a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For almost all of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are two dominant forms of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the chances of hitting are surprisingly tiny, but then the prizes are also remarkably big. It’s been said by economists who study the idea that the majority don’t purchase a card with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is built on either the local or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pander to the extremely rich of the state and sightseers. Until recently, there was a considerably substantial tourist industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected violence have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. 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 pair of which contain table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has contracted by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has come to pass, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on until things get better is merely unknown.