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The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may envision that there would be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the critical economic circumstances leading to a higher desire to gamble, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For most of the people living on the meager local earnings, there are two popular forms of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of hitting are remarkably low, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who look at the idea that most don’t purchase a card with an actual assumption of profiting. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the English football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, look after the incredibly rich of the state and tourists. Until not long ago, there was a very big sightseeing business, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated bloodshed have carved 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 slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: 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 crime that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how well the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around till conditions improve is simply unknown.
