The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the crucial economic circumstances leading to a higher desire to bet, to try and find a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For almost all of the locals living on the tiny nearby money, there are two common 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 winning are extremely small, but then the prizes are also remarkably high. It’s been said by economists who look at the idea that most do not buy a ticket with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the English football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the state and vacationers. Up till a short time ago, there was a exceptionally substantial vacationing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated crime have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has contracted by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has come to pass, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive till conditions improve is simply unknown.