The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you might envision that there would be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a bigger ambition to gamble, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For almost all of the citizens surviving on the abismal local wages, there are two established forms of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the chances of profiting are extremely small, but then the prizes are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the subject that many don’t purchase a ticket with the rational expectation of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, look after the extremely rich of the state and travelers. Up till recently, there was a very substantial sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected crime 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 one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Centre in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by more than 40 percentin recent years and with the associated poverty and crime that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how healthy the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around till conditions improve is simply not known.
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