The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the desperate economic circumstances creating a larger eagerness to gamble, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For many of the people surviving on the tiny nearby earnings, there are 2 popular styles of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the chances of succeeding are unbelievably tiny, but then the winnings are also extremely big. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the concept that most do not buy a card with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, look after the incredibly rich of the country and vacationers. Up until recently, there was a considerably large vacationing industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated violence have cut 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 hall, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t well-known how healthy the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through till conditions get better is merely not known.