The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there might be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the atrocious market conditions leading to a greater eagerness to bet, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For most of the citizens surviving on the meager local wages, there are two dominant forms of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are extremely small, but then the winnings are also remarkably big. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the idea that the lion’s share don’t purchase a ticket with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the very rich of the nation and tourists. Until a short time ago, there was a incredibly substantial tourist business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected violence have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools 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.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has come to pass, it is not known how healthy the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive till conditions improve is merely not known.