The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be working the other way, with the crucial market conditions creating a bigger desire to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For nearly all of the citizens living on the meager local earnings, there are 2 established types of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the odds of hitting are surprisingly tiny, but then the jackpots are also very high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that most don’t buy a card with an actual assumption of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, cater to the very rich of the country and vacationers. Until a short while ago, there was a extremely large vacationing industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected violence have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 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 slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated talked about 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 metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has resulted, it is not known how healthy the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around until things improve is merely not known.