The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may think that there might be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be working the other way around, with the crucial market circumstances leading to a larger desire to gamble, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the problems.
For many of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal local earnings, there are 2 popular styles of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the chances of profiting are remarkably low, but then the winnings are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that many do not buy a ticket with an actual expectation of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pamper the incredibly rich of the state and tourists. Up till not long ago, there was a very large vacationing business, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has diminished by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has resulted, it is not known how healthy the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive till things improve is merely not known.