The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may envision that there would be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the awful economic circumstances creating a higher eagerness to bet, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For the majority of the locals living on the tiny local money, there are 2 popular forms of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the chances of winning are extremely small, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the concept that the lion’s share don’t buy a card with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the society and travelers. Up till not long ago, there was a extremely big tourist business, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected bloodshed have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has diminished by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has resulted, it is not well-known how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on until conditions get better is merely unknown.