The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might envision that there might be little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the desperate market conditions leading to a larger ambition to play, to try and find a quick win, a way from the problems.
For almost all of the locals living on the abysmal nearby wages, there are two established styles of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the odds of winning are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also extremely high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the concept that many do not purchase a card with a real belief of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, cater to the extremely rich of the nation and tourists. Up till recently, there was a very big sightseeing business, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated conflict have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain 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, both 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 quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has deflated by beyond 40% in recent years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has resulted, it isn’t known how well the vacationing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive until conditions improve is basically not known.
