The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might envision that there would be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be working the other way, with the crucial market conditions creating a bigger ambition to play, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For almost all of the locals subsisting on the meager local wages, there are 2 dominant types of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the chances of profiting are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also remarkably big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that most don’t purchase a ticket with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pamper the incredibly rich of the country and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a very big tourist industry, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated crime have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has 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 houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has come about, it isn’t well-known how healthy the vacationing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry through until things get better is basically unknown.
