The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might envision that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the desperate market conditions leading to a greater desire to play, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For many of the people living on the abysmal local earnings, there are two established styles of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the odds of winning are remarkably low, but then the winnings are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by economists who understand the subject that the lion’s share do not purchase a ticket with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the incredibly rich of the society and sightseers. Up till not long ago, there was a exceptionally substantial sightseeing industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated violence have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has 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 gambling halls and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has arisen, it is not understood how well the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around till things improve is merely not known.