The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could think that there might be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be working the other way around, with the crucial market circumstances creating a larger desire to gamble, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For almost all of the people living on the tiny nearby money, there are two dominant forms of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of hitting are extremely tiny, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the domestic or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, look after the incredibly rich of the country and sightseers. Up until recently, there was a exceptionally large tourist business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated violence have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slots. 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, the two of which offer table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how healthy the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive till conditions get better is basically not known.