The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may think that there would be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the awful economic conditions leading to a higher ambition to play, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For the majority of the citizens living on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 common forms of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the chances of winning are unbelievably small, but then the winnings are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the concept that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with a real belief of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the society and tourists. Up till not long ago, there was a exceptionally substantial sightseeing business, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and crime that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how healthy the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry on until conditions get better is simply not known.