The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might envision that there would be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the atrocious market conditions leading to a higher desire to wager, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the situation.
For the majority of the citizens living on the meager nearby money, there are 2 established styles of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of profiting are surprisingly small, but then the prizes are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by economists who understand the concept that most do not buy a ticket with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the UK soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the very rich of the state and sightseers. Up until recently, there was a extremely substantial vacationing industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected crime have carved 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 one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably 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 municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has resulted, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive till conditions get better is simply not known.