The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might think that there might be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the critical market conditions creating a larger desire to play, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For the majority of the locals living on the meager local wages, there are two dominant types of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of profiting are unbelievably tiny, but then the winnings are also very big. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that the majority do not purchase a ticket with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, look after the incredibly rich of the state and travelers. Up until a short while ago, there was a exceptionally big tourist business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, slots 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 slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has shrunk by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has arisen, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive till conditions improve is merely unknown.