The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there might be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be functioning the opposite way around, with the critical market conditions creating a greater ambition to gamble, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For almost all of the people surviving on the abysmal local earnings, there are two dominant forms of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of hitting are extremely small, but then the jackpots are also very high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the concept that most don’t buy a card with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, mollycoddle the incredibly rich of the nation and vacationers. Until a short time ago, there was a exceptionally large tourist business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 Casino, which has only slot machine games. 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, both of which offer gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has deflated by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and crime that has cropped up, it isn’t known how well the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on until things improve is merely not known.