The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there might be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be operating the opposite way, with the crucial market conditions leading to a larger desire to gamble, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For nearly all of the locals surviving on the tiny local earnings, there are 2 common forms of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the chances of profiting are remarkably small, but then the jackpots are also extremely high. It’s been said by economists who look at the idea that most don’t buy a ticket with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the British soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the considerably rich of the nation and travelers. Until a short time ago, there was a exceptionally large tourist industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated bloodshed have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has diminished by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how healthy the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive until conditions get better is merely unknown.
