The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you may think that there would be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the other way around, with the desperate economic conditions creating a higher eagerness to gamble, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For nearly all of the locals surviving on the tiny nearby earnings, there are two dominant types of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the chances of hitting are extremely low, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that the majority do not purchase a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the British soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the society and tourists. Until not long ago, there was a very substantial tourist business, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated crime have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain table games, 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 have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and crime that has come about, it isn’t understood how healthy the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will be alive till things get better is merely not known.
