The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there might be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be working the other way around, with the awful market conditions creating a larger desire to play, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For the majority of the people living on the meager local wages, there are 2 established forms of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the odds of profiting are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also very high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the subject that the majority don’t buy a ticket with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is built on either the local or the British football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the very rich of the society and vacationers. Up until a short time ago, there was a exceptionally big sightseeing business, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected violence have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not well-known how healthy the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on till things get better is simply not known.