The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could think that there might be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a greater eagerness to gamble, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For many of the people surviving on the tiny nearby wages, there are two popular forms of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of succeeding are remarkably low, but then the prizes are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who look at the idea that most do not buy a card with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pamper the very rich of the country and sightseers. Until recently, there was a considerably substantial tourist business, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected violence have carved into this trade.
Among 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 den, which has only slot machines. 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 two of which have table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has come about, it isn’t well-known how well the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry on until conditions improve is basically unknown.