The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you may envision that there would be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the crucial market circumstances creating a greater eagerness to play, to try and find a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For most of the locals subsisting on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 dominant styles of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the odds of hitting are remarkably small, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the idea that the majority do not buy a card with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the British soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the country and travelers. Until a short while ago, there was a very substantial vacationing industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will be alive until things improve is merely unknown.