The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could envision that there might be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be operating the other way, with the atrocious market circumstances creating a higher desire to bet, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For many of the people subsisting on the tiny local earnings, there are 2 popular forms of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the chances of succeeding are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also very big. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that many do not purchase a ticket with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is built on either the local or the British football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the incredibly rich of the country and vacationers. Until recently, there was a exceptionally big vacationing business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected conflict have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has contracted by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not known how well the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive until things get better is simply unknown.