The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the critical economic circumstances leading to a larger ambition to play, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For almost all of the citizens surviving on the meager local earnings, there are two popular styles of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of succeeding are extremely low, but then the prizes are also remarkably high. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a card with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the British football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the considerably rich of the nation and travelers. Until not long ago, there was a exceptionally large sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected bloodshed have carved 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 one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has arisen, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive till things improve is basically not known.