The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be working the other way around, with the crucial market circumstances leading to a larger ambition to bet, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For most of the people subsisting on the abysmal local earnings, there are two established types of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the chances of winning are surprisingly low, but then the prizes are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that the majority don’t buy a ticket with the rational assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the UK football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pamper the astonishingly rich of the nation and vacationers. Up until recently, there was a extremely big tourist business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated conflict have carved into this trade.
Among 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 gambling den, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses 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 gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not known how healthy the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will still be around till conditions get better is simply not known.
