The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be functioning the opposite way around, with the desperate market conditions creating a greater eagerness to wager, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the situation.
For almost all of the people surviving on the tiny local money, there are 2 common types of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of succeeding are extremely small, but then the winnings are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who study the idea that most don’t buy a ticket with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, pander to the considerably rich of the nation and sightseers. Up until recently, there was a extremely large vacationing business, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated bloodshed have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how well the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around until conditions get better is merely unknown.