The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could envision that there would be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the desperate market circumstances creating a larger ambition to play, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For most of the citizens living on the abysmal local money, there are 2 established forms of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of winning are extremely tiny, but then the jackpots are also very big. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that many do not buy a card with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is founded on one of the national or the United Kingston football leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, cater to the considerably rich of the society and tourists. Up till a short time ago, there was a incredibly large tourist industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated violence have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has resulted, it is not understood how well the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry through till conditions get better is merely not known.