The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could envision that there might be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a larger eagerness to gamble, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For most of the people subsisting on the abysmal local earnings, there are two established forms of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are extremely small, but then the winnings are also remarkably big. It’s been said by economists who understand the idea that the lion’s share don’t purchase a card with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pander to the astonishingly rich of the country and vacationers. Up till a short while ago, there was a incredibly large sightseeing industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated violence have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five 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 one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has diminished by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has come about, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry on till conditions get better is simply not known.
