The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may envision that there might be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be operating the opposite way, with the critical market circumstances leading to a larger ambition to wager, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For the majority of the people subsisting on the meager local money, there are 2 dominant styles of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the chances of hitting are extremely small, but then the winnings are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by economists who understand the concept that most don’t purchase a ticket with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the UK football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pamper the very rich of the country and vacationers. Up until recently, there was a exceptionally large sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected violence have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two 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 machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t well-known how well the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will survive till things get better is simply unknown.