The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might envision that there might be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a bigger desire to gamble, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For many of the locals surviving on the tiny local money, there are 2 common forms of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the chances of profiting are remarkably small, but then the winnings are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the subject that the majority do not purchase a ticket with an actual assumption of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the British football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pander to the exceedingly rich of the country and travelers. Up till recently, there was a considerably big vacationing business, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated violence have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the 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 contain gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has diminished by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has resulted, it isn’t known how healthy the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will be alive till conditions improve is basically unknown.
