The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you might think that there would be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be operating the other way, with the crucial economic circumstances creating a bigger desire to play, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For many of the people subsisting on the tiny nearby earnings, there are 2 established forms of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are extremely small, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the concept that the lion’s share don’t purchase a card with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the English football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pamper the very rich of the state and tourists. Up until recently, there was a considerably big sightseeing industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected bloodshed have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has contracted by beyond 40% in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it is not well-known how well the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will survive till conditions improve is basically not known.