The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the atrocious market conditions creating a larger ambition to play, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For many of the people subsisting on the meager local wages, there are 2 common styles of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are unbelievably tiny, but then the winnings are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the subject that most do not purchase a card with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the British soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the very rich of the nation and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably large vacationing business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive till things improve is basically not known.