The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could think that there would be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the desperate market conditions leading to a bigger desire to wager, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the problems.
For the majority of the locals living on the tiny nearby money, there are two popular types of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of hitting are remarkably small, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the concept that many don’t buy a ticket with the rational assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the English football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the nation and tourists. Up till recently, there was a incredibly big tourist industry, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated violence have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by beyond 40% in recent years and with the associated poverty and crime that has resulted, it is not well-known how well the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around till things improve is basically not known.