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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might think that there might be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the awful market conditions creating a larger desire to bet, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For nearly all of the citizens subsisting on the meager nearby wages, there are two established types of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the odds of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also remarkably high. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that the majority don’t buy a ticket with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the UK soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the very rich of the society and travelers. Up till a short time ago, there was a extremely substantial vacationing business, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated crime have cut into this market.
Among 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 Casino, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has contracted by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has come about, it is not known how well the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive until things get better is basically unknown.
