The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could think that there would be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be working the other way, with the awful economic circumstances creating a bigger eagerness to play, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the problems.
For most of the locals subsisting on the tiny local wages, there are two popular types of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are extremely low, but then the prizes are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that the lion’s share don’t buy a card with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the British soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pamper the very rich of the society and sightseers. Until recently, there was a considerably substantial sightseeing business, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected bloodshed have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has come about, it isn’t understood how healthy the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive until things improve is simply unknown.