The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there might be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the crucial market circumstances creating a higher ambition to bet, to try and find a fast win, a way from the situation.
For almost all of the people surviving on the tiny local money, there are two established forms of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the chances of profiting are remarkably low, but then the winnings are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by economists who look at the idea that many don’t purchase a ticket with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on either the national or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the very rich of the country and vacationers. Until recently, there was a very big sightseeing business, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated bloodshed 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 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 just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has diminished by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has cropped up, it is not understood how healthy the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will be alive till conditions get better is simply unknown.