The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there might be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the awful market circumstances leading to a greater ambition to play, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the citizens surviving on the abysmal local earnings, there are two common styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of winning are extremely small, but then the winnings are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the subject that the majority do not purchase a card with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the United Kingston football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, pamper the extremely rich of the state and vacationers. Up until not long ago, there was a very large tourist business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected violence have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, slot machines 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 blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how healthy the vacationing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive till conditions improve is basically not known.