The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there might be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the critical economic conditions creating a bigger desire to play, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For the majority of the citizens living on the abysmal local money, there are two dominant forms of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of winning are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also extremely large. It’s been said by economists who study the idea that many don’t purchase a card with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the English football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the exceedingly rich of the state and tourists. Up until a short time ago, there was a incredibly big sightseeing business, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated conflict have carved into this market.
Among 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 hall, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has deflated by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has come to pass, it is not understood how well the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will still be around till conditions improve is merely unknown.