The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may imagine that there might be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be working the other way around, with the awful economic conditions creating a bigger eagerness to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For almost all of the people surviving on the abysmal nearby money, there are two dominant types of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of hitting are surprisingly small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the idea that the majority do not buy a card with the rational assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the English football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pander to the astonishingly rich of the nation and travelers. Up until not long ago, there was a exceptionally large sightseeing business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated crime have cut into this trade.
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 den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has cropped up, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive until conditions improve is basically unknown.