The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could envision that there would be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be operating the other way, with the crucial economic conditions leading to a higher eagerness to bet, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For the majority of the citizens subsisting on the meager nearby money, there are two established forms of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of succeeding are remarkably low, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that the majority don’t purchase a card with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the English football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the considerably rich of the country and travelers. Until a short time ago, there was a extremely big sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected crime have carved into this market.
Among 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 Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very 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.
Since the economy has diminished by beyond 40% in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not well-known how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry on till conditions improve is merely unknown.