The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may imagine that there might be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the critical economic circumstances creating a larger ambition to gamble, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For the majority of the locals surviving on the abysmal local money, there are two popular forms of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of profiting are remarkably low, but then the winnings are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that the majority don’t purchase a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the incredibly rich of the state and travelers. Up till a short time ago, there was a incredibly large vacationing business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated conflict have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five 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 slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has diminished by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has cropped up, it is not understood how healthy the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry on until things get better is simply not known.
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