The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could envision that there might be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the critical economic conditions creating a greater desire to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For many of the people surviving on the meager local money, there are 2 popular styles of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the chances of succeeding are extremely tiny, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the subject that most don’t purchase a card with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pamper the very rich of the country and sightseers. Up till a short time ago, there was a extremely substantial sightseeing industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated violence have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have 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, the pair of which has video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously mentioned 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.
Given that the market has shrunk by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has arisen, it is not well-known how healthy the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on till things get better is simply not known.