The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may imagine that there might be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be working the other way around, with the critical economic conditions creating a bigger desire to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For the majority of the citizens surviving on the abysmal local money, there are 2 common styles of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of succeeding are remarkably tiny, but then the winnings are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by economists who look at the subject that the lion’s share don’t buy a card with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the national or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, mollycoddle the very rich of the society and travelers. Up until not long ago, there was a exceptionally substantial vacationing business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated 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 one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machines. 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 offer table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has deflated by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and crime that has come to pass, it is not understood how healthy the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around till things get better is merely unknown.