The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might envision that there might be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the atrocious market circumstances creating a greater ambition to play, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For most of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are 2 dominant types of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the chances of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also extremely large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that most don’t buy a card with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on either the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, look after the very rich of the nation and sightseers. Until a short while ago, there was a very big sightseeing business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated violence have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, 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, both of which have gaming tables, 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 offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it is not known how healthy the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive until things get better is basically unknown.