The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may envision that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the critical economic conditions leading to a larger ambition to play, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the problems.
For the majority of the locals surviving on the abysmal local wages, there are two dominant styles of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of profiting are remarkably low, but then the jackpots are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that most do not purchase a card with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the national or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pamper the very rich of the nation and vacationers. Up till not long ago, there was a exceptionally big vacationing industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected violence have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 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, the two of which have 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 have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has deflated by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and crime that has come about, it is not understood how well the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive till things improve is simply unknown.