The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the crucial market conditions creating a higher eagerness to wager, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For most of the citizens subsisting on the tiny local money, there are two common styles of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are surprisingly low, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that the lion’s share do not buy a ticket with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the English football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the exceedingly rich of the nation and sightseers. Until a short time ago, there was a incredibly substantial vacationing industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected violence have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has cropped up, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive till conditions improve is simply unknown.