The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could envision that there might be little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be operating the other way, with the desperate economic conditions leading to a bigger eagerness to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way from the problems.
For the majority of the people subsisting on the meager local money, there are two popular types of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of hitting are unbelievably tiny, but then the winnings are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that the lion’s share don’t purchase a card with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pamper the very rich of the nation and sightseers. Up until a short time ago, there was a exceptionally substantial sightseeing industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected crime have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has come to pass, it is not well-known how healthy the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive until conditions get better is merely unknown.