The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might think that there might be little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the other way around, with the awful economic conditions creating a higher ambition to play, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For nearly all of the people subsisting on the tiny nearby money, there are 2 dominant styles of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the odds of profiting are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that many do not buy a card with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the British soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, look after the incredibly rich of the country and tourists. Up till not long ago, there was a extremely large vacationing business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has come about, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around until conditions improve is basically unknown.