The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the atrocious economic conditions leading to a bigger eagerness to wager, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the problems.
For the majority of the citizens surviving on the tiny local money, there are 2 common styles of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the chances of hitting are extremely low, but then the jackpots are also remarkably high. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that most do not purchase a ticket with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the English football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, pander to the exceedingly rich of the state and vacationers. Until a short time ago, there was a very big vacationing business, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated conflict have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not understood how well the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive till things get better is merely not known.