The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might envision that there might be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the critical market conditions creating a bigger ambition to bet, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For the majority of the citizens living on the tiny local wages, there are two common forms of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of winning are unbelievably low, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that the lion’s share do not purchase a card with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pander to the incredibly rich of the state and sightseers. Up until recently, there was a exceptionally large vacationing industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 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 machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. 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 electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is 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.
Given that the market has contracted by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has arisen, it is not understood how well the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive till conditions get better is basically not known.