The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there might be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the crucial market conditions creating a larger ambition to bet, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the situation.
For almost all of the people surviving on the meager nearby wages, there are two dominant types of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the odds of profiting are surprisingly small, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who understand the subject that most don’t buy a ticket with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the British football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pander to the extremely rich of the nation and travelers. Until not long ago, there was a very big vacationing business, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated crime have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two 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 video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has deflated by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through until conditions get better is simply unknown.