The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might envision that there might be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the desperate economic circumstances creating a higher desire to bet, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For the majority of the citizens subsisting on the tiny nearby wages, there are two popular forms of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the chances of profiting are remarkably low, but then the prizes are also remarkably big. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the concept that many don’t buy a ticket with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the British football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the extremely rich of the country and vacationers. Until not long ago, there was a exceptionally large tourist industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated crime have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair 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, both of which has slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and crime that has come about, it isn’t known how well the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will survive until things get better is simply unknown.
