The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could envision that there might be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be working the other way around, with the critical economic conditions creating a bigger ambition to wager, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For almost all of the people living on the abysmal local money, there are two dominant forms of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also very high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that many don’t purchase a card with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pander to the astonishingly rich of the state and sightseers. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably large sightseeing industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected crime have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and crime that has come about, it is not understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive until things get better is basically unknown.
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