The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there might be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the atrocious economic conditions leading to a larger desire to play, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way from the situation.
For many of the people surviving on the abysmal nearby wages, there are two dominant types of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the chances of succeeding are remarkably tiny, but then the winnings are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that the lion’s share don’t buy a card with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, look after the astonishingly rich of the nation and sightseers. Until recently, there was a extremely big tourist industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected violence have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 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 slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: 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 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has come about, it isn’t well-known how healthy the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive till conditions get better is basically not known.