The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there would be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the atrocious market conditions creating a higher desire to bet, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For most of the citizens subsisting on the tiny local wages, there are two established styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of profiting are surprisingly low, but then the jackpots are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that the majority do not buy a ticket with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the British soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the extremely rich of the nation and tourists. Up till a short time ago, there was a exceptionally big vacationing business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated bloodshed have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slots. 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, the pair of which contain table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t 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 until things improve is simply not known.