The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could think that there might be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way, with the critical economic circumstances leading to a larger ambition to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For many of the citizens subsisting on the meager local earnings, there are 2 dominant styles of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of hitting are surprisingly low, but then the prizes are also very large. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that many do not buy a card with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, cater to the considerably rich of the nation and tourists. Up till not long ago, there was a very big sightseeing business, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected crime have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 only 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 contain gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has arisen, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through till things improve is simply not known.
