The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might envision that there might be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the crucial economic conditions leading to a greater desire to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For many of the locals living on the meager local earnings, there are two common forms of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of winning are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that the lion’s share don’t purchase a card with an actual expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pamper the incredibly rich of the society and vacationers. Until a short time ago, there was a considerably big vacationing business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected violence have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it is not well-known how well the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive until things get better is simply not known.