The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could envision that there might be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be working the other way, with the awful market conditions leading to a greater ambition to gamble, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For most of the people living on the meager local earnings, there are two popular styles of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the odds of hitting are extremely low, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by economists who understand the subject that the majority do not purchase a card with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the UK football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pamper the considerably rich of the country and tourists. Until a short time ago, there was a very substantial sightseeing business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime have cut into this market.
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 gambling hall, which has just the 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 offer table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is 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 recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has come about, it isn’t well-known how healthy the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry through until conditions get better is basically unknown.
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