The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be working the other way, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a bigger desire to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the problems.
For almost all of the locals subsisting on the tiny nearby money, there are two popular forms of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of winning are remarkably small, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that the lion’s share don’t purchase a ticket with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the UK soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, look after the astonishingly rich of the country and vacationers. Until a short while ago, there was a considerably large sightseeing business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated conflict 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 Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer 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, the pair of which has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has arisen, it is not known how well the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around until things improve is merely not known.
