The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might think that there might be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the critical market circumstances creating a larger desire to wager, to try and find a fast win, a way from the problems.
For many of the citizens subsisting on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 popular types of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of hitting are surprisingly small, but then the jackpots are also very high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the subject that many do not purchase a card with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pander to the very rich of the country and sightseers. Up until not long ago, there was a very large vacationing business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, slot machines 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 offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has come about, it is not well-known how healthy the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around till conditions get better is basically not known.