The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may think that there would be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the atrocious market circumstances creating a higher ambition to play, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For nearly all of the locals subsisting on the meager local money, there are 2 popular forms of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of winning are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that most do not purchase a ticket with an actual expectation of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, cater to the very rich of the country and tourists. Up until not long ago, there was a extremely big sightseeing business, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated violence have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. 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 two of which contain table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has deflated by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and crime that has come about, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive until conditions get better is simply unknown.