The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the awful economic circumstances leading to a greater ambition to play, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For the majority of the people subsisting on the meager local earnings, there are two popular styles of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the winnings are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that the majority do not buy a card with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the British soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the astonishingly rich of the society and sightseers. Until a short while ago, there was a very substantial sightseeing industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: 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 connected poverty and bloodshed that has resulted, it is not well-known how healthy the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive till things improve is basically unknown.
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