The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there might be little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the desperate market conditions creating a greater ambition to bet, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are 2 dominant styles of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the chances of succeeding are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also extremely high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the idea that the lion’s share do not purchase a card with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, cater to the extremely rich of the society and sightseers. Up until not long ago, there was a considerably substantial vacationing business, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected conflict have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain gaming tables, 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 offer video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t known how well the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry on until things get better is simply not known.