The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you may imagine that there might be very little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the crucial economic circumstances leading to a bigger ambition to gamble, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For many of the locals living on the meager local money, there are two popular types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the odds of hitting are surprisingly tiny, but then the jackpots are also remarkably big. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that most don’t buy a card with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the incredibly rich of the nation and tourists. Until a short while ago, there was a extremely big sightseeing business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected violence have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. 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 pair of which contain gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also 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 economy has contracted by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has come about, it is not well-known how well the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive until conditions improve is simply not known.