The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be operating the opposite way, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a greater eagerness to play, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For most of the citizens surviving on the tiny nearby earnings, there are two dominant forms of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the chances of hitting are surprisingly tiny, but then the prizes are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by economists who study the idea that most do not purchase a card with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pander to the incredibly rich of the state and travelers. Up until recently, there was a considerably big sightseeing business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated conflict have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. 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, the pair of which have table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has resulted, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on until conditions get better is simply not known.