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 appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be working the other way, with the crucial economic conditions creating a bigger desire to wager, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For almost all of the people surviving on the abysmal nearby wages, there are 2 common types of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of winning are remarkably small, but then the winnings are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by economists who study the idea that the majority do not purchase a ticket with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the national or the UK soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, cater to the incredibly rich of the state and tourists. Up till a short time ago, there was a very large vacationing industry, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has deflated by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has come about, it isn’t known how healthy the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive till conditions get better is merely not known.