The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be working the other way around, with the desperate market conditions leading to a larger eagerness to bet, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For nearly all of the people living on the tiny local wages, there are 2 popular styles of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of profiting are surprisingly small, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the subject that many don’t purchase a ticket with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the UK soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pander to the very rich of the society and sightseers. Up until recently, there was a exceptionally big sightseeing industry, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated conflict have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, 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, both of which contain table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has arisen, it isn’t understood how well the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around till things improve is merely not known.