The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may imagine that there might be very little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the awful economic circumstances creating a greater eagerness to wager, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For almost all of the people living on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 dominant forms of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of hitting are surprisingly small, but then the jackpots are also extremely big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that many don’t purchase a ticket with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, look after the exceedingly rich of the society and travelers. Up till a short time ago, there was a very big tourist industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated conflict have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 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 only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two 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 video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has contracted by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has cropped up, it isn’t known how healthy the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions get better is merely not known.