The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could think that there would be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be operating the other way, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a larger eagerness to gamble, to attempt to find a fast win, a way from the problems.
For nearly all of the locals subsisting on the meager local money, there are 2 established types of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of hitting are unbelievably small, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the concept that the majority don’t purchase a card with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the English football leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pamper the considerably rich of the nation and travelers. Until a short time ago, there was a considerably substantial vacationing business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected bloodshed have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two 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 slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has come about, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around until things improve is basically unknown.