The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might envision that there would be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be working the other way around, with the crucial economic conditions creating a larger ambition to play, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For nearly all of the locals living on the meager local wages, there are 2 popular forms of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the chances of winning are unbelievably low, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the subject that the majority do not purchase a card with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the British soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pander to the considerably rich of the society and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a very big sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain 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, the two of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has come to pass, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive till conditions improve is simply unknown.