The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could envision that there would be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the critical economic conditions creating a bigger ambition to gamble, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For almost all of the people surviving on the abysmal nearby money, there are 2 dominant types of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the odds of succeeding are unbelievably small, but then the prizes are also extremely high. It’s been said by economists who look at the subject that the majority do not buy a ticket with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, look after the exceedingly rich of the state and tourists. Up till a short while ago, there was a exceptionally large sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated crime have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two 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 only slot machine games. 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 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, the two of which has video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive until things improve is basically not known.