The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the crucial market conditions leading to a higher eagerness to play, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For many of the people living on the abysmal local wages, there are two dominant forms of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of winning are remarkably tiny, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the idea that many do not purchase a ticket with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, mollycoddle the considerably rich of the society and tourists. Up until a short time ago, there was a very large tourist industry, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected crime have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has come about, it isn’t known how healthy the tourist industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive till conditions improve is basically unknown.
