The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be working the other way, with the critical economic conditions creating a higher eagerness to play, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the people subsisting on the tiny local earnings, there are two common styles of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of winning are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also very big. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that the majority don’t buy a card with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, look after the incredibly rich of the nation and sightseers. Until recently, there was a extremely big sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected violence have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain 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 has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has diminished by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has come to pass, it is not known how well the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive till conditions get better is simply unknown.
