The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the awful economic circumstances leading to a higher ambition to play, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For many of the citizens subsisting on the meager nearby earnings, there are two dominant types of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the chances of hitting are surprisingly low, but then the prizes are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by economists who look at the subject that the majority do not purchase a ticket with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, cater to the considerably rich of the nation and tourists. Up till not long ago, there was a very big vacationing business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected bloodshed have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by more than forty percent 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 funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on until things improve is basically unknown.
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