The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might think that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be working the other way, with the crucial market conditions leading to a bigger desire to bet, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For nearly all of the people living on the meager nearby wages, there are 2 common types of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the chances of succeeding are surprisingly tiny, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the subject that many do not buy a ticket with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, cater to the considerably rich of the nation and tourists. Until not long ago, there was a extremely large sightseeing business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated crime have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has come about, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through until things improve is basically unknown.