The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might think that there might be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be working the other way around, with the critical market circumstances leading to a higher ambition to bet, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For nearly all of the people living on the tiny nearby wages, there are two established types of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of hitting are remarkably tiny, but then the jackpots are also remarkably big. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that the majority don’t buy a card with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the astonishingly rich of the nation and travelers. Up until not long ago, there was a considerably large 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 gambling halls, there are two 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 machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has deflated by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has resulted, it is not well-known how healthy the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry through until things improve is simply not known.