The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might think that there would be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the awful economic circumstances leading to a greater eagerness to gamble, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For most of the citizens living on the abysmal local money, there are two dominant forms of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the chances of profiting are remarkably tiny, but then the jackpots are also extremely high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that most don’t buy a card with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the national or the UK football leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the considerably rich of the country and travelers. Until not long ago, there was a considerably big sightseeing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected violence have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slot machines 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 video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t understood how well the sightseeing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive till things get better is simply unknown.
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