The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might envision that there might be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the crucial economic circumstances leading to a greater ambition to wager, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For many of the people subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 common forms of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of profiting are extremely low, but then the jackpots are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the idea that the majority do not purchase a ticket with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the English football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the exceedingly rich of the state and tourists. Up until not long ago, there was a incredibly large tourist business, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected crime have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 contain table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has come to pass, it is not understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive till conditions get better is merely unknown.