The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the awful economic conditions creating a larger ambition to wager, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For most of the people surviving on the meager nearby wages, there are two established styles of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of winning are remarkably low, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the subject that the lion’s share don’t purchase a card with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the UK football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pander to the considerably rich of the state and tourists. Until a short time ago, there was a very substantial vacationing business, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected violence have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 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 slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses 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 gambling dens and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has deflated by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not understood how well the tourist industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around till conditions get better is simply not known.