The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you might think that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the crucial economic circumstances leading to a bigger ambition to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the problems.
For nearly all of the people surviving on the abysmal local money, there are two dominant styles of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the chances of succeeding are unbelievably small, but then the winnings are also remarkably high. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that most don’t buy a card with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the English football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the country and vacationers. Up till a short while ago, there was a exceptionally substantial sightseeing industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected crime have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, slots and video poker 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 table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how healthy the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on till conditions improve is simply unknown.