The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may envision that there might be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the awful market circumstances leading to a higher desire to bet, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For nearly all of the citizens subsisting on the meager nearby earnings, there are two common forms of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the odds of succeeding are extremely small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the concept that the lion’s share do not buy a card with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the national or the United Kingston football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pamper the considerably rich of the society and tourists. Up until a short while ago, there was a very large vacationing industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed 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 5 gaming tables and slot machines, 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 contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting 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.
Since the economy has contracted by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has arisen, it is not understood how healthy the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry through until things get better is merely unknown.
