The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might envision that there might be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the awful market circumstances creating a larger eagerness to wager, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For many of the people living on the meager local earnings, there are 2 dominant forms of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of profiting are remarkably tiny, but then the winnings are also very big. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that the majority do not purchase a card with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, look after the exceedingly rich of the state and tourists. Until not long ago, there was a very substantial tourist industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected crime have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have 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 slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has contracted by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has resulted, it is not well-known how healthy the sightseeing 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 basically not known.