The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might envision that there would be very little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be working the other way around, with the crucial economic conditions leading to a larger eagerness to wager, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the problems.
For the majority of the people subsisting on the tiny nearby money, there are two dominant types of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the chances of hitting are unbelievably small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who look at the idea that most do not purchase a card with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the United Kingston football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pander to the exceedingly rich of the state and travelers. Up until not long ago, there was a very large tourist industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected conflict have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. 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, the pair of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic 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 considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has resulted, it is not understood how well the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on till things get better is merely unknown.