The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be working the other way around, with the atrocious economic conditions leading to a larger ambition to play, to try and find a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For most of the people subsisting on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 popular forms of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are extremely small, but then the winnings are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by financial experts who study the situation that most don’t buy a card with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pander to the considerably rich of the nation and sightseers. Up till recently, there was a incredibly large vacationing industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only 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 offer 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, each of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has arisen, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive till things get better is basically unknown.
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