The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you may imagine that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the desperate market conditions creating a greater eagerness to wager, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For many of the locals subsisting on the tiny local money, there are two established styles of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also remarkably big. It’s been said by economists who understand the subject that the majority do not purchase a ticket with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the British soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the considerably rich of the country and vacationers. Up till a short time ago, there was a extremely big tourist industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated violence have carved into this market.
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 Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has come about, it is not understood how healthy the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive till things get better is simply unknown.