The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may think that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the desperate market conditions creating a greater ambition to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way from the problems.
For many of the locals living on the tiny nearby earnings, there are 2 dominant forms of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the odds of hitting are extremely tiny, but then the jackpots are also remarkably high. It’s been said by economists who understand the concept that the majority do not buy a ticket with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the national or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the incredibly rich of the state and vacationers. Until not long ago, there was a incredibly big tourist business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated conflict have carved into this trade.
Amongst 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 slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slot machines and electronic 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 table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how well the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will be alive till things improve is basically not known.
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