The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be very little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the awful market conditions leading to a larger eagerness to wager, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For many of the locals subsisting on the abysmal nearby earnings, there are 2 common types of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the chances of profiting are surprisingly low, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a card with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the British football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, cater to the extremely rich of the society and tourists. Up till recently, there was a exceptionally big sightseeing business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated crime have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 Casino, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer 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, each of which offer video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has contracted by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t known how well the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on till things improve is merely unknown.