The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could think that there would be little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the crucial market conditions leading to a greater desire to bet, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the situation.
For the majority of the people subsisting on the tiny local money, there are two established forms of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the odds of hitting are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by economists who understand the subject that most don’t purchase a card with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the national or the UK football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the very rich of the nation and vacationers. Up till a short time ago, there was a very large sightseeing industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected violence have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slots. 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, both of which have table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has resulted, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive until things improve is simply unknown.