The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a higher ambition to play, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For many of the citizens surviving on the meager local earnings, there are two popular styles of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of profiting are extremely small, but then the winnings are also remarkably high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that the majority don’t purchase a ticket with the rational assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the national or the British football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the country and travelers. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably substantial tourist industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected violence have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, slots 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 have gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it is not understood how healthy the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry through till things improve is simply not known.