The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could envision that there would be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the critical market conditions creating a bigger desire to gamble, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For nearly all of the people surviving on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 dominant styles of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are unbelievably small, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the subject that most do not buy a ticket with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the UK football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the country and tourists. Until a short while ago, there was a extremely big vacationing industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated conflict have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has diminished by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has come to pass, it is not understood how healthy the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry through until things get better is merely not known.