The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the critical economic conditions creating a higher eagerness to wager, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the problems.
For most of the locals subsisting on the tiny local wages, there are 2 dominant styles of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the chances of succeeding are remarkably low, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that most do not purchase a card with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the UK football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the incredibly rich of the nation and tourists. Up until a short time ago, there was a exceptionally substantial vacationing industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer 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 two of which has slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has come about, it is not well-known how healthy the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around until conditions get better is basically unknown.