The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you may imagine that there might be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the desperate economic conditions leading to a higher desire to gamble, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For nearly all of the citizens subsisting on the tiny local money, there are two popular forms of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the odds of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the winnings are also remarkably big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the concept that the majority do not buy a ticket with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the English football divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the astonishingly rich of the state and tourists. Up until not long ago, there was a exceptionally substantial tourist industry, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated crime have carved into this trade.
Among 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 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, both of which contain table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has deflated by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how healthy the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will be alive until conditions get better is merely not known.