The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could envision that there would be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the atrocious market circumstances creating a higher desire to play, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the problems.
For almost all of the citizens surviving on the abysmal local earnings, there are two dominant forms of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of profiting are extremely small, but then the winnings are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a ticket with a real belief of winning. Zimbet is built on either 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 considerably rich of the state and vacationers. Up until recently, there was a extremely large vacationing industry, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated conflict have carved into this trade.
Among 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 slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slots and video 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 halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has come about, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around till things improve is simply unknown.
