The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may imagine that there might be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the awful economic circumstances creating a higher eagerness to play, to try and find a quick win, a way from the problems.
For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal nearby wages, there are 2 common forms of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the idea that the majority don’t purchase a ticket with an actual expectation of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the English football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the incredibly rich of the state and tourists. Until not long ago, there was a very substantial sightseeing industry, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated conflict have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. 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 offer table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it is not understood how well the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will still be around until conditions improve is merely unknown.