The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you may envision that there might be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the crucial economic conditions leading to a higher eagerness to play, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For most of the people surviving on the tiny local earnings, there are two established forms of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the odds of succeeding are remarkably low, but then the jackpots are also remarkably big. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that many do not purchase a ticket with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, look after the exceedingly rich of the state and tourists. Until a short time ago, there was a extremely big tourist industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated crime have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slots. 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 offer table games, slot machines 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 gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how healthy the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry through till conditions improve is basically not known.