The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might envision that there might be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a greater eagerness to gamble, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For nearly all of the locals living on the abysmal local wages, there are two common forms of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the chances of winning are surprisingly low, but then the prizes are also remarkably high. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the British soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the society and travelers. Until recently, there was a considerably substantial vacationing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected bloodshed have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 den, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 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 market has contracted by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has come about, it is not known how well the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will be alive until conditions improve is merely unknown.