The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you may envision that there would be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be working the other way around, with the desperate market conditions leading to a larger eagerness to wager, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For nearly all of the people subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 common types of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the chances of winning are unbelievably tiny, but then the prizes are also extremely large. It’s been said by economists who understand the concept that the lion’s share don’t purchase a ticket with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is based on either the national or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the nation and travelers. Up until recently, there was a extremely large sightseeing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated conflict have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. 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 two of which have gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned alluded to 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 city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry through till conditions improve is simply not known.