The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could envision that there might be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the crucial market conditions creating a larger desire to gamble, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For many of the people surviving on the meager local wages, there are two dominant styles of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the odds of profiting are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that many don’t buy a ticket with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the national or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the country and sightseers. Until not long ago, there was a incredibly big vacationing industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected conflict have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, slots and video 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 quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has resulted, it isn’t known how well the vacationing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through till things get better is merely unknown.