The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may imagine that there might be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the awful market conditions leading to a higher eagerness to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the problems.
For almost all of the citizens surviving on the tiny nearby money, there are two common types of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the chances of hitting are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that many don’t purchase a ticket with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, cater to the exceedingly rich of the country and sightseers. Until a short while ago, there was a extremely big tourist industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated violence have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not known how well the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry through until things improve is basically not known.