The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the critical market conditions creating a larger ambition to bet, to try and find a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For almost all of the locals subsisting on the meager nearby earnings, there are two common forms of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of winning are surprisingly tiny, but then the jackpots are also extremely high. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that the majority don’t purchase a card with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the incredibly rich of the state and travelers. Up till recently, there was a extremely large tourist industry, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how well the vacationing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around until things get better is simply not known.
