The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could envision that there would be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be working the other way around, with the awful market conditions creating a bigger ambition to bet, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For most of the citizens subsisting on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 popular types of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of profiting are extremely small, but then the jackpots are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that many do not buy a card with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the considerably rich of the nation and vacationers. Until a short time ago, there was a exceptionally large vacationing business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming tables, 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 offer video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has contracted by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has resulted, it is not known how well the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry through till conditions get better is simply unknown.