The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there might be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the crucial economic circumstances creating a greater eagerness to wager, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For the majority of the citizens subsisting on the meager local earnings, there are two common styles of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of winning are surprisingly low, but then the prizes are also very large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the concept that many don’t buy a ticket with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the United Kingston football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, cater to the considerably rich of the state and tourists. Up till recently, there was a exceptionally substantial vacationing business, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected violence have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 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 just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has contracted by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how well the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around until things get better is merely unknown.