The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be operating the other way, with the critical economic conditions creating a higher eagerness to play, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For many of the locals surviving on the meager local wages, there are 2 common styles of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of hitting are remarkably low, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by economists who study the subject that the lion’s share do not buy a card with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, pamper the extremely rich of the country and vacationers. Up till not long ago, there was a exceptionally substantial vacationing industry, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected conflict 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 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machines. 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, the pair of which contain 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, both of which have gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has deflated by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how healthy the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will be alive till things get better is merely not known.