The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the atrocious market circumstances creating a larger desire to bet, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For most of the locals living on the abysmal local earnings, there are 2 common types of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the chances of winning are surprisingly tiny, but then the prizes are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who study the subject that the majority do not buy a ticket with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the UK football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the incredibly rich of the country and vacationers. Until a short time ago, there was a extremely substantial sightseeing industry, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated violence have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has come to pass, it is not well-known how well the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around till conditions get better is simply not known.