The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could think that there might be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the crucial economic circumstances creating a larger desire to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For most of the locals subsisting on the meager nearby money, there are two established styles of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the chances of winning are unbelievably low, but then the winnings are also remarkably big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that the majority don’t buy a card with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, mollycoddle the incredibly rich of the society and travelers. Up until a short time ago, there was a very big vacationing industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected violence have carved into this market.
Amongst 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 just the slots. 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 pair of which have table games, slot machines 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 has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has cropped up, it is not well-known how well the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will survive until things get better is merely unknown.