The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there would be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the desperate economic conditions leading to a larger desire to gamble, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For most of the locals subsisting on the tiny nearby earnings, there are two popular types of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the odds of succeeding are remarkably low, but then the winnings are also remarkably big. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that most do not purchase a ticket with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pander to the considerably rich of the country and sightseers. Until a short while ago, there was a extremely big vacationing industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, slots and electronic 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 table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has contracted by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has come to pass, it is not understood how well the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will be alive until conditions get better is merely unknown.