The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there might be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the atrocious market conditions creating a higher eagerness to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For the majority of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are two common styles of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the odds of hitting are extremely small, but then the winnings are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the concept that many do not buy a ticket with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the UK soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the country and tourists. Up till a short time ago, there was a extremely substantial tourist industry, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected conflict have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, slots and video 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 blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how well the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through until things get better is merely not known.
