The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could envision that there might be very little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the awful market conditions creating a greater eagerness to bet, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For most of the citizens subsisting on the meager local earnings, there are 2 common types of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the chances of profiting are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also remarkably large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the concept that the lion’s share do not buy a ticket with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the nation and travelers. Until a short while ago, there was a very big sightseeing industry, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated violence have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 den, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has deflated by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has resulted, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will still be around till things get better is merely not known.
