The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might envision that there might be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the awful market circumstances leading to a larger desire to bet, to try and find a quick win, a way from the situation.
For most of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal local earnings, there are two dominant styles of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of winning are unbelievably small, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by economists who look at the idea that many do not buy a card with an actual expectation of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the English football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, mollycoddle the very rich of the nation and sightseers. Up till not long ago, there was a incredibly big sightseeing industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected crime have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, one armed bandits 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 slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has come about, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on until things get better is simply unknown.