The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there might be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the crucial economic circumstances creating a larger eagerness to bet, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For most of the locals surviving on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 established styles of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of profiting are extremely small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that many do not purchase a card with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the country and travelers. Up until not long ago, there was a very big sightseeing industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has contracted by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not understood how well the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry on till conditions get better is basically not known.