The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the crucial economic conditions creating a higher ambition to play, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the citizens living on the abysmal nearby earnings, there are two dominant styles of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the chances of hitting are surprisingly tiny, but then the prizes are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the concept that the majority do not buy a card with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the British football leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pander to the incredibly rich of the society and tourists. Until recently, there was a very large tourist industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has contracted by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has resulted, it is not understood how healthy the vacationing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around till conditions improve is simply unknown.