The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could think that there would be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be working the other way around, with the atrocious economic conditions leading to a greater desire to wager, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the problems.
For many of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are 2 common types of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also extremely big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the concept that the lion’s share don’t buy a card with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the United Kingston football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the extremely rich of the society and tourists. Up until not long ago, there was a incredibly big vacationing business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated bloodshed 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 slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. 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 contain gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has shrunk by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has come to pass, it is not known how well the sightseeing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive till conditions get better is simply not known.