The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there might be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a larger eagerness to gamble, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For the majority of the people subsisting on the tiny nearby money, there are two dominant types of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of hitting are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the subject that the majority do not purchase a ticket with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the very rich of the state and travelers. Up until not long ago, there was a very substantial sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated conflict have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slots. 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 table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has contracted by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how well the vacationing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry through till things get better is basically not known.
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