The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a bigger eagerness to wager, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For almost all of the people surviving on the tiny local earnings, there are two dominant types of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the odds of profiting are unbelievably small, but then the winnings are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that the majority don’t buy a ticket with an actual assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, cater to the very rich of the country and tourists. Until recently, there was a incredibly substantial vacationing business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video 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 aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has deflated by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has come about, it isn’t well-known how healthy the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive till conditions get better is basically not known.