The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might envision that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be working the other way around, with the critical economic circumstances leading to a higher ambition to bet, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For most of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are 2 common forms of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of profiting are remarkably tiny, but then the jackpots are also very big. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the concept that the majority do not buy a ticket with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, mollycoddle the incredibly rich of the country and vacationers. Until a short while ago, there was a extremely big vacationing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very 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.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will still be around until conditions get better is basically not known.