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The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may envision that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be working the other way, with the crucial market conditions leading to a larger ambition to wager, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For almost all of the locals living on the meager nearby money, there are two dominant forms of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of profiting are extremely low, but then the winnings are also remarkably big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the British football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pander to the considerably rich of the country and tourists. Up till a short time ago, there was a very big tourist industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated crime have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by beyond 40% in recent years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has cropped up, it isn’t known how well the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will still be around till conditions improve is basically not known.
