The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there might be very little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the atrocious economic conditions leading to a greater ambition to play, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For most of the locals living on the abysmal nearby earnings, there are 2 popular forms of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are remarkably small, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that the lion’s share do not purchase a card with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pamper the considerably rich of the society and tourists. Up till not long ago, there was a very large tourist industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated bloodshed have carved into this market.
Among 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 den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has resulted, it is not 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 until things improve is basically not known.
