The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could envision that there would be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the desperate market circumstances creating a larger ambition to wager, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For almost all of the people subsisting on the meager local wages, there are 2 established styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the chances of profiting are extremely low, but then the winnings are also extremely high. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that many don’t buy a card with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pamper the astonishingly rich of the state and vacationers. Up until not long ago, there was a very big tourist industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected violence have cut 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 hall, which has only slot machine games. 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 two of which offer table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has contracted by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t understood how healthy the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on until things improve is merely unknown.