The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the atrocious economic circumstances creating a higher desire to play, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For almost all of the people surviving on the abysmal local money, there are 2 popular forms of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the chances of hitting are remarkably small, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the concept that most don’t purchase a ticket with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the national or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, look after the astonishingly rich of the nation and sightseers. Up until recently, there was a incredibly substantial sightseeing business, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has arisen, it is not well-known how healthy the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive until conditions get better is basically unknown.