The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could envision that there would be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the crucial economic conditions creating a higher ambition to wager, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For many of the locals living on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 established forms of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are extremely small, but then the prizes are also remarkably high. It’s been said by economists who study the subject that many do not purchase a ticket with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, mollycoddle the very rich of the state and vacationers. Up till not long ago, there was a incredibly big vacationing business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated violence have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has come about, it isn’t understood how well the vacationing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around till conditions improve is basically not known.