The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be operating the other way, with the crucial economic circumstances creating a greater desire to bet, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the problems.
For almost all of the citizens surviving on the tiny nearby earnings, there are 2 established forms of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are surprisingly low, but then the jackpots are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that many don’t purchase a card with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is based on either the local or the UK soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pamper the very rich of the state and sightseers. Up till not long ago, there was a incredibly big tourist industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated bloodshed have carved 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 slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has resulted, it isn’t known how healthy the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will survive till conditions improve is basically unknown.