The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may think that there would be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be working the other way around, with the desperate market conditions creating a bigger eagerness to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the situation.
For the majority of the people subsisting on the meager nearby money, there are two popular types of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of hitting are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the concept that the majority do not buy a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on either the national or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, look after the astonishingly rich of the society and vacationers. Up until a short time ago, there was a incredibly substantial vacationing business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected violence have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has contracted by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has resulted, it is not known how healthy the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive till things get better is merely not known.