The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you may think that there might be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be functioning the opposite way around, with the atrocious economic conditions creating a higher eagerness to wager, to attempt to find a fast win, a way from the problems.
For almost all of the locals subsisting on the tiny local wages, there are 2 popular types of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of winning are remarkably low, but then the winnings are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the concept that the majority don’t buy a ticket with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the British soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, look after the extremely rich of the nation and tourists. Up till a short time ago, there was a exceptionally large tourist industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected violence have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. 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, both of which have table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it is not known how healthy the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry through until conditions get better is basically not known.
