The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the awful economic circumstances creating a larger ambition to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For almost all of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are 2 popular types of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the odds of profiting are extremely tiny, but then the jackpots are also extremely high. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that the majority don’t purchase a card with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the British football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, mollycoddle the considerably rich of the society and vacationers. Up till not long ago, there was a exceptionally substantial sightseeing business, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected violence have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. 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, the two of which offer table games, 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 offer slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it is not well-known how well the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through until things improve is simply not known.