The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may envision that there would be little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the critical market circumstances creating a greater desire to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For nearly all of the locals subsisting on the meager local earnings, there are 2 dominant styles of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the odds of hitting are extremely tiny, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a card with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the state and tourists. Until a short while ago, there was a considerably substantial vacationing business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, 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, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above talked about 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 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how well the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will survive till conditions get better is merely unknown.