The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may think that there might be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the critical market conditions creating a bigger desire to play, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For the majority of the people living on the meager local money, there are 2 established types of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of winning are unbelievably small, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that the lion’s share do not buy a ticket with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the state and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a extremely large tourist industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has come about, it isn’t known how well the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through till conditions improve is merely unknown.
