The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be functioning the opposite way around, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a larger desire to gamble, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For almost all of the locals surviving on the meager local earnings, there are two popular forms of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of hitting are remarkably small, but then the jackpots are also extremely large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the idea that the majority don’t buy a card with an actual expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the nation and vacationers. Up until recently, there was a considerably substantial sightseeing business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected bloodshed have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain table games, slots and video 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 dens and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has come about, it is not understood how well the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive till conditions get better is merely not known.
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