The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be operating the opposite way, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a bigger ambition to gamble, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For many of the locals subsisting on the tiny local wages, there are 2 established types of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the chances of succeeding are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also extremely large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the concept that most don’t purchase a card with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the UK football leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, look after the incredibly rich of the nation and travelers. Until not long ago, there was a incredibly substantial sightseeing industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated violence have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 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, the pair of which offer table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has contracted by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and crime that has resulted, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on until things improve is merely unknown.