The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there might be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the crucial market conditions leading to a greater desire to bet, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For many of the people subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are two dominant types of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of profiting are extremely small, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that the majority do not buy a ticket with an actual expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the British soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pander to the very rich of the state and sightseers. Until a short time ago, there was a considerably big tourist industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated crime have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it is not understood how healthy the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through till conditions get better is merely not known.