The entire process 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 going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the critical economic conditions creating a larger eagerness to play, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the people living on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 common types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the odds of winning are unbelievably small, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that many do not buy a card with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is based on either the national or the English football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, cater to the exceedingly rich of the state and travelers. Until a short time ago, there was a extremely large sightseeing business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and crime that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how well the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through until things improve is simply not known.
