The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you may imagine that there might be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the desperate economic conditions creating a greater desire to bet, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the problems.
For most of the citizens surviving on the abysmal local earnings, there are 2 dominant forms of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of winning are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also remarkably high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that many don’t buy a ticket with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the British soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the extremely rich of the country and tourists. Up until a short while ago, there was a exceptionally substantial vacationing business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how well the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will be alive until things get better is basically not known.