The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could envision that there might be very little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the awful market circumstances creating a larger ambition to gamble, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the situation.
For almost all of the locals subsisting on the tiny local money, there are two popular styles of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of hitting are surprisingly small, but then the prizes are also extremely high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that most don’t buy a ticket with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is built on either the national or the British soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, look after the extremely rich of the state and vacationers. Up till a short time ago, there was a exceptionally substantial sightseeing industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected violence have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, 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 have table games, slot machines 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 offer slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two 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 diminished by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has arisen, it is not known how well the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on till conditions get better is simply unknown.