The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might think that there might be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be working the other way around, with the critical market circumstances leading to a greater desire to bet, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For nearly all of the people surviving on the meager local money, there are two dominant types of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the chances of succeeding are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also remarkably high. It’s been said by economists who study the subject that most don’t purchase a ticket with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pander to the considerably rich of the society and tourists. Up until a short time ago, there was a very large sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated conflict have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the 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 pair of which offer table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has resulted, it isn’t known how healthy the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive until things get better is basically not known.