The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could think that there would be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be functioning the opposite way around, with the awful market circumstances creating a larger ambition to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the situation.
For nearly all of the people living on the meager nearby wages, there are 2 dominant styles of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the odds of hitting are unbelievably small, but then the winnings are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by financial experts who study the situation that most don’t buy a ticket with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on either the national or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the astonishingly rich of the country and tourists. Up until not long ago, there was a exceptionally large vacationing business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected crime 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 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, one armed bandits 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 gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has deflated by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has resulted, it isn’t understood how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around till conditions get better is simply unknown.