The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you may envision that there would be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the desperate economic conditions creating a greater ambition to play, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For almost all of the locals surviving on the meager local earnings, there are 2 dominant styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of profiting are remarkably small, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the concept that the majority do not buy a ticket with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the state and sightseers. Up till a short while ago, there was a exceptionally large sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated crime have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. 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 have gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has deflated by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it is not understood how healthy the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on till things improve is basically unknown.