The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a higher desire to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For nearly all of the people living on the tiny nearby earnings, there are 2 established types of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of winning are unbelievably tiny, but then the prizes are also remarkably high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that most don’t buy a card with an actual expectation of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, cater to the astonishingly rich of the nation and sightseers. Up till recently, there was a extremely substantial vacationing business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated crime have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 only slot machines. 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, the pair of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has deflated by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has resulted, it isn’t well-known how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will still be around until conditions get better is simply unknown.