The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may think that there would be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be working the other way, with the atrocious market circumstances creating a larger desire to bet, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For nearly all of the locals subsisting on the meager nearby wages, there are two established forms of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the odds of winning are surprisingly small, but then the prizes are also extremely high. It’s been said by economists who understand the idea that many don’t buy a ticket with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the British football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the considerably rich of the society and travelers. Until not long ago, there was a extremely large sightseeing business, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only 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 offer table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has contracted by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t known how healthy the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through until things improve is basically not known.