The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you may envision that there would be little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the atrocious market conditions leading to a larger eagerness to play, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For almost all of the citizens surviving on the meager local earnings, there are 2 dominant forms of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of winning are surprisingly tiny, but then the prizes are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that the lion’s share don’t buy a card with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the English football leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the very rich of the nation and travelers. Up till recently, there was a incredibly big vacationing business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Among 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 gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has 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 two of which offer video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and crime that has resulted, it isn’t understood how well the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will still be around until things get better is simply unknown.