The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the desperate economic circumstances leading to a higher eagerness to gamble, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For many of the citizens subsisting on the tiny nearby money, there are two dominant forms of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the odds of winning are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also extremely high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the concept that many don’t purchase a card with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the state and vacationers. Until a short time ago, there was a considerably big vacationing industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected crime have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five 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, the two of which contain table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite 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 municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has come about, it is not understood how healthy the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry through till things improve is merely not known.