The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might envision that there might be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be working the other way around, with the crucial market circumstances creating a higher desire to bet, to attempt to find a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For most of the locals subsisting on the tiny nearby money, there are two common styles of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also remarkably big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that most do not buy a ticket with the rational expectation of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the English football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, mollycoddle the incredibly rich of the state and travelers. Until recently, there was a exceptionally big tourist industry, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected crime have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both 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 pair of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has come about, it is not understood 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 carry through till conditions improve is basically unknown.