The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might envision that there would be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the awful market circumstances creating a bigger desire to wager, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For nearly all of the citizens surviving on the abysmal local money, there are 2 established forms of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of profiting are surprisingly low, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that the lion’s share don’t purchase a card with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the British football leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pander to the incredibly rich of the country and vacationers. Up till a short time ago, there was a extremely big tourist business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected violence have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has resulted, it is not well-known how well the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive until things get better is basically not known.