The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the critical market circumstances leading to a larger ambition to gamble, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For the majority of the locals subsisting on the abysmal nearby money, there are 2 common styles of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of profiting are extremely low, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that the lion’s share do not buy a card with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the country and tourists. Up till a short while ago, there was a extremely substantial tourist business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected crime 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 five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, slot machines and video poker 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 tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are 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.
Since the economy has shrunk by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has resulted, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry on until things improve is merely unknown.