The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you may imagine that there might be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the other way, with the desperate economic circumstances creating a bigger eagerness to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way from the problems.
For many of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are 2 established forms of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the chances of hitting are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that many do not buy a card with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the British football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, cater to the exceedingly rich of the society and travelers. Up till recently, there was a extremely big vacationing industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected violence have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 Casino, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has come about, it isn’t understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around till conditions get better is merely not known.