The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the awful market circumstances creating a bigger eagerness to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For the majority of the locals subsisting on the tiny local wages, there are two established forms of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of hitting are extremely tiny, but then the prizes are also very high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that most don’t purchase a card with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the domestic or the British soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pamper the very rich of the country and travelers. Up until not long ago, there was a exceptionally substantial sightseeing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected crime have cut 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 gambling hall, which has just the 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, the pair of which have gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has shrunk by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not well-known how well the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive till conditions improve is basically unknown.