The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might envision that there might be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the critical market circumstances creating a greater eagerness to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For many of the citizens subsisting on the meager nearby wages, there are 2 dominant forms of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of succeeding are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also remarkably high. It’s been said by economists who look at the subject that many don’t buy a card with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is built on either the national or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, cater to the astonishingly rich of the society and sightseers. Up till a short time ago, there was a considerably big sightseeing business, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed 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 five gaming tables and slots, 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, the two of which offer gaming tables, 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 video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has arisen, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive until conditions improve is merely unknown.