The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may imagine that there would be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the awful market circumstances leading to a greater eagerness to bet, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For most of the people subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are two established types of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of hitting are remarkably low, but then the winnings are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that the majority do not purchase a ticket with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the UK football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, cater to the incredibly rich of the country and tourists. Until recently, there was a extremely large tourist business, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected crime have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 den, which has just the slot machines. 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 pair of which have table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t understood how well the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around until things improve is simply unknown.