The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you may imagine that there would be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be working the other way around, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a greater desire to gamble, to try and find a fast win, a way from the problems.
For nearly all of the people living on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 established forms of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the odds of hitting are remarkably small, but then the winnings are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the concept that the lion’s share do not buy a ticket with the rational assumption of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the British soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, cater to the exceedingly rich of the state and vacationers. Until a short time ago, there was a very substantial sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected conflict have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has diminished by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has cropped up, it is not understood how well the vacationing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions get better is merely not known.
