The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you may think that there might be very little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be working the other way, with the awful economic circumstances creating a higher eagerness to bet, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For nearly all of the locals living on the abysmal nearby wages, there are 2 established forms of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of profiting are unbelievably small, but then the prizes are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by economists who study the subject that many don’t buy a ticket with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, cater to the astonishingly rich of the nation and vacationers. Up until not long ago, there was a very substantial vacationing business, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected crime have cut 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 slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only 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 have gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t known how well the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive till things get better is merely unknown.