The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might envision that there would be little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the critical market conditions leading to a higher eagerness to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For the majority of the citizens living on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 popular types of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of winning are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also very high. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the idea that the majority do not purchase a card with an actual expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the exceedingly rich of the nation and sightseers. Until recently, there was a considerably large sightseeing business, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected violence have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, 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 pair of which contain gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has deflated by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has cropped up, it is not understood how well the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through until conditions improve is simply not known.