The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there might be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be functioning the opposite way around, with the crucial market circumstances leading to a higher desire to play, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For almost all of the people surviving on the meager nearby wages, there are two established styles of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are remarkably small, but then the winnings are also very high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that the majority do not buy a ticket with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the UK football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, cater to the very rich of the society and travelers. Until a short time ago, there was a very substantial tourist business, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected crime have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how healthy the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry through until things improve is merely unknown.