The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may imagine that there would be little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the crucial market conditions leading to a bigger eagerness to play, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For almost all of the locals living on the meager nearby wages, there are two popular types of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of succeeding are unbelievably tiny, but then the winnings are also very large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that most don’t buy a ticket with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the English football leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, cater to the very rich of the state and sightseers. Until recently, there was a very substantial sightseeing industry, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected crime have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by beyond 40% in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it isn’t understood how well the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive until conditions improve is basically unknown.