The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be operating the opposite way, with the awful market circumstances creating a higher ambition to play, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the situation.
For almost all of the people living on the abysmal local money, there are 2 popular forms of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of profiting are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the concept that many don’t buy a card with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the considerably rich of the society and travelers. Until a short while ago, there was a considerably large sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both 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 pair of which has slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has come about, it is not understood how well the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry through until conditions improve is basically not known.