The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could think that there might be very little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the desperate market conditions creating a bigger desire to gamble, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For many of the citizens living on the abysmal nearby wages, there are 2 dominant forms of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of winning are surprisingly tiny, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the subject that most do not buy a card with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pander to the incredibly rich of the nation and travelers. Up till a short while ago, there was a considerably substantial sightseeing business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected crime have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has deflated by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has come to pass, it is not understood how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive until conditions improve is merely unknown.