The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could envision that there would be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the critical market conditions creating a higher eagerness to gamble, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For the majority of the citizens surviving on the tiny local earnings, there are two established types of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the chances of profiting are surprisingly small, but then the winnings are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the idea that the majority don’t buy a card with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the country and travelers. Up till a short while ago, there was a extremely substantial tourist industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated crime have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two 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 slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has come to pass, it isn’t known how healthy the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will be alive till things improve is basically not known.