The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the atrocious economic conditions leading to a higher ambition to play, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For almost all of the locals surviving on the tiny local earnings, there are 2 popular types of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the chances of profiting are unbelievably small, but then the winnings are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that the majority don’t buy a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the incredibly rich of the nation and travelers. Until a short while ago, there was a exceptionally big tourist industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected violence have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain table games, one armed bandits 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 offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and crime that has arisen, it isn’t understood how well the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry through until things improve is basically not known.