The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may imagine that there might be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be working the other way around, with the crucial economic conditions creating a higher eagerness to wager, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For many of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are two dominant styles of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of winning are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that many do not purchase a card with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the domestic or the British soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the state and sightseers. Up till a short time ago, there was a exceptionally big sightseeing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected crime have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two 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 slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how healthy the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry on until conditions improve is merely not known.