The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may imagine that there might be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be working the other way around, with the crucial market circumstances leading to a greater ambition to gamble, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For nearly all of the people surviving on the meager local wages, there are 2 popular styles of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of hitting are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by economists who understand the subject that the majority don’t buy a card with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, mollycoddle the very rich of the country and vacationers. Until not long ago, there was a considerably big vacationing business, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated crime 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 slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming 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 are 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.
Since the market has deflated by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on until conditions get better is basically not known.
