The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might think that there might be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be working the other way around, with the desperate economic conditions leading to a higher eagerness to wager, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For the majority of the people surviving on the meager local wages, there are 2 popular types of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are unbelievably small, but then the winnings are also extremely big. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that most don’t purchase a ticket with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, mollycoddle the very rich of the nation and travelers. Up till a short while ago, there was a exceptionally large sightseeing business, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated crime 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 machines. 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 offer 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, both of which offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by beyond 40% in the past few 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 in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive till conditions improve is merely not known.