The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could think that there might be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be working the other way around, with the desperate market conditions leading to a higher eagerness to play, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the problems.
For many of the people surviving on the meager nearby earnings, there are two dominant forms of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the chances of succeeding are remarkably small, but then the winnings are also extremely big. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that most do not buy a ticket with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the British soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the incredibly rich of the state and vacationers. Up until recently, there was a extremely big vacationing industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.
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 Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how healthy the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry through till conditions get better is simply unknown.