The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there might be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be operating the opposite way, with the awful market conditions creating a greater eagerness to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For nearly all of the locals living on the meager local wages, there are 2 dominant forms of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of hitting are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also very large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the subject that most do not buy a card with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, look after the considerably rich of the nation and tourists. Until not long ago, there was a exceptionally large vacationing industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 gambling hall, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting 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.
Since the economy has diminished by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has cropped up, it is not known how healthy the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive till things improve is simply unknown.
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