The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the desperate economic conditions leading to a higher desire to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For many of the people living on the tiny nearby earnings, there are two dominant styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are extremely tiny, but then the jackpots are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that most don’t purchase a card with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pander to the very rich of the society and vacationers. Until a short time ago, there was a exceptionally big vacationing business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected violence have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slots. 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, the pair of which have table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has deflated by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has arisen, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry through until things get better is simply not known.