The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the desperate economic circumstances creating a bigger desire to bet, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the situation.
For almost all of the people subsisting on the abysmal nearby money, there are two established forms of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the chances of succeeding are surprisingly tiny, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the concept that most don’t buy a ticket with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pamper the very rich of the nation and vacationers. Up till a short time ago, there was a extremely big sightseeing business, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has cropped up, it is not well-known how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive till conditions get better is simply not known.