The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might think that there might be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the atrocious market conditions leading to a higher ambition to gamble, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For almost all of the locals surviving on the abysmal nearby money, there are two dominant forms of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of hitting are remarkably tiny, but then the jackpots are also remarkably large. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that many don’t purchase a ticket with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the British soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, cater to the very rich of the society and tourists. Until a short time ago, there was a considerably big tourist industry, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated crime have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slots. 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 machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has deflated by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not well-known how well the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through till things improve is simply unknown.