The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may think that there would be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the atrocious market circumstances creating a greater ambition to wager, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the problems.
For most of the people surviving on the abysmal local wages, there are two common types of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the chances of hitting are unbelievably small, but then the winnings are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the situation that many don’t buy a card with an actual assumption of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the UK soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, cater to the extremely rich of the society and travelers. Up till recently, there was a very substantial vacationing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected crime have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain 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 pair of which have gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has contracted by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how well the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will still be around till conditions get better is merely not known.