The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there might be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the desperate market conditions creating a bigger ambition to play, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For the majority of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are two dominant types of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of hitting are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that the majority don’t purchase a ticket with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is built on either the local or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, cater to the incredibly rich of the nation and sightseers. Up until a short while ago, there was a very big tourist industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only 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, the two of which contain table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has come about, it is not known how healthy the vacationing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will still be around until conditions improve is merely unknown.
