The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there might be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be working the other way, with the awful market circumstances creating a higher desire to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the situation.
For almost all of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local earnings, there are two established styles of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the chances of profiting are surprisingly low, but then the jackpots are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that the majority don’t purchase a ticket with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the extremely rich of the society and travelers. Up till recently, there was a considerably substantial tourist industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated conflict have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 just the 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, both of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also two 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 beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and crime that has arisen, it isn’t understood how well the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive until things improve is simply unknown.
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