The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the critical market circumstances creating a greater ambition to play, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal nearby money, there are 2 dominant types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of hitting are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also very big. It’s been said by economists who study the idea that the lion’s share do not purchase a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on either the national or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pander to the considerably rich of the society and vacationers. Up till not long ago, there was a considerably substantial sightseeing industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected conflict have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not known how well the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will survive until conditions get better is basically unknown.
