The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the atrocious economic conditions leading to a higher eagerness to play, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 established types of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are extremely tiny, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the concept that the majority don’t buy a ticket with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, cater to the extremely rich of the state and sightseers. Until a short time ago, there was a very large sightseeing industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive till things get better is basically not known.
