The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might envision that there would be little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the critical market conditions creating a larger eagerness to bet, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For almost all of the locals surviving on the meager local money, there are two popular forms of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the chances of winning are unbelievably tiny, but then the winnings are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who study the idea that the lion’s share don’t purchase a ticket with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the English football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the astonishingly rich of the nation and tourists. Until recently, there was a exceptionally big vacationing industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. 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, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has resulted, it isn’t understood how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive until conditions get better is merely not known.