The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a higher eagerness to wager, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way from the problems.
For many of the citizens subsisting on the tiny nearby earnings, there are two dominant forms of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the chances of profiting are extremely small, but then the prizes are also extremely large. It’s been said by economists who study the idea that most do not buy a ticket with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the national or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, cater to the exceedingly rich of the nation and sightseers. Up until a short time ago, there was a exceptionally big tourist business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated violence have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. 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 pair of which have 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, both of which have video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it is not known how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will survive till things improve is basically unknown.