The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might envision that there might be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be working the other way, with the awful economic circumstances leading to a bigger eagerness to bet, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the citizens subsisting on the tiny local money, there are two dominant forms of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the odds of winning are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also extremely big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the subject that most don’t buy a card with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the domestic or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the extremely rich of the state and travelers. Up till a short while ago, there was a extremely substantial tourist industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated bloodshed have carved into this market.
Among 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 slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. 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 poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how healthy the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry on till conditions improve is merely unknown.