The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may envision that there might be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a larger ambition to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For almost all of the locals surviving on the meager local earnings, there are 2 popular types of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are extremely low, but then the winnings are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that the majority do not purchase a ticket with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, cater to the incredibly rich of the society and tourists. Until not long ago, there was a exceptionally big sightseeing industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer 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 offer slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite 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 metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has diminished by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has come to pass, it is not understood how healthy the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive until conditions improve is basically unknown.