The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could envision that there would be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be operating the opposite way, with the crucial economic conditions leading to a greater desire to play, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For most of the locals subsisting on the tiny nearby earnings, there are 2 popular forms of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of profiting are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also very big. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that most do not buy a card with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the British soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pander to the astonishingly rich of the society and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably substantial vacationing business, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated violence have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has come to pass, it is not understood how healthy the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through until conditions improve is simply not known.