The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may think that there would be little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the critical market conditions leading to a bigger ambition to play, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For most of the people surviving on the tiny local wages, there are 2 established types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the odds of profiting are unbelievably tiny, but then the prizes are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that many do not purchase a ticket with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the national or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, look after the very rich of the society and travelers. Until a short while ago, there was a considerably large tourist industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected violence have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has resulted, it is not understood how well the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive until conditions improve is simply unknown.
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