The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may imagine that there might be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the crucial market conditions creating a larger desire to play, to attempt to find a fast win, a way from the problems.
For many of the locals subsisting on the tiny nearby money, there are 2 common styles of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of profiting are extremely small, but then the winnings are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that the lion’s share do not buy a card with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is based on either the national or the English football divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, cater to the very rich of the state and sightseers. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably big vacationing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions get better is merely unknown.