The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the critical economic circumstances creating a higher desire to gamble, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For many of the people surviving on the tiny nearby money, there are 2 dominant styles of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the chances of hitting are extremely low, but then the jackpots are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that most do not buy a card with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, cater to the astonishingly rich of the society and sightseers. Until not long ago, there was a considerably substantial sightseeing business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slot machines 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 video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is 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.
Since the market has shrunk by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry through till conditions improve is merely not known.