The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the critical economic conditions creating a higher eagerness to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the situation.
For most of the locals living on the tiny local money, there are two established styles of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of winning are extremely tiny, but then the jackpots are also remarkably high. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that the majority do not purchase a ticket with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the incredibly rich of the nation and vacationers. Up till a short time ago, there was a exceptionally big sightseeing business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected conflict have carved 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 one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only 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 contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how well the vacationing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive until things improve is merely unknown.