The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you might envision that there might be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the critical market circumstances leading to a larger desire to bet, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the people subsisting on the tiny local wages, there are 2 established forms of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of profiting are extremely tiny, but then the jackpots are also remarkably high. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that most do not buy a card with an actual assumption of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pamper the astonishingly rich of the country and vacationers. Until a short time ago, there was a extremely large vacationing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed 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 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has deflated by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has resulted, it isn’t known how well the vacationing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on till conditions improve is simply unknown.