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The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may imagine that there might be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a larger ambition to play, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For most of the locals surviving on the tiny nearby earnings, there are two established styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of winning are extremely tiny, but then the jackpots are also very high. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that many don’t buy a ticket with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, look after the astonishingly rich of the nation and tourists. Until not long ago, there was a very large vacationing business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected conflict have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by beyond 40% in recent years and with the associated poverty and crime that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around till things get better is basically not known.
