The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may envision that there might be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be working the other way around, with the awful economic circumstances leading to a larger ambition to play, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For almost all of the locals surviving on the tiny nearby earnings, there are 2 dominant styles of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are unbelievably low, but then the winnings are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that the majority don’t purchase a ticket with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, cater to the exceedingly rich of the country and tourists. Until not long ago, there was a exceptionally large tourist business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected conflict have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how well the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry on till things get better is simply unknown.