The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could envision that there would be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the awful economic circumstances leading to a greater ambition to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the people surviving on the abysmal local earnings, there are 2 popular types of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the chances of winning are extremely tiny, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the concept that the lion’s share do not purchase a ticket with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, look after the very rich of the state and vacationers. Until not long ago, there was a considerably big sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has shrunk by beyond 40% in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has cropped up, it is not understood how healthy the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on till conditions improve is basically unknown.