The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might envision that there would be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the awful economic circumstances leading to a higher ambition to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For many of the citizens living on the tiny local money, there are two common styles of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of profiting are surprisingly low, but then the prizes are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that many don’t buy a ticket with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, pamper the exceedingly rich of the society and vacationers. Until recently, there was a incredibly substantial sightseeing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected crime have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. 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, both 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, each of which offer video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are 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.
Given that the market has contracted by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has come about, it is not known how well the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive till conditions get better is basically unknown.