The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may envision that there would be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a larger desire to bet, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For most of the locals subsisting on the abysmal nearby wages, there are two common types of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of profiting are extremely low, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the idea that most do not purchase a card with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the English football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, cater to the astonishingly rich of the state and sightseers. Until not long ago, there was a considerably large sightseeing industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair 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, both of which has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t well-known how healthy the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive until things get better is basically not known.