The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you might envision that there would be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be functioning the opposite way around, with the awful economic circumstances creating a bigger eagerness to play, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For most of the citizens living on the abysmal nearby wages, there are two common forms of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the odds of succeeding are surprisingly tiny, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the concept that most don’t buy a card with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pander to the considerably rich of the society and travelers. Up until not long ago, there was a very large vacationing industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected crime have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two 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 just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has come about, it isn’t understood how well the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will be alive until conditions improve is simply not known.
