The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might think that there would be little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the desperate economic conditions creating a higher desire to wager, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For nearly all of the people surviving on the abysmal local earnings, there are two popular styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the odds of profiting are unbelievably low, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that the majority do not buy a card with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the British football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the incredibly rich of the country and vacationers. Up till a short time ago, there was a incredibly substantial vacationing industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. 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 electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how healthy the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry on until conditions get better is merely not known.
