The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might think that there would be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the critical market circumstances creating a bigger ambition to play, to try and find a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For most of the locals living on the abysmal nearby wages, there are 2 dominant styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of profiting are extremely low, but then the winnings are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that the majority do not purchase a card with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is based on either the national or the British football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pander to the incredibly rich of the nation and vacationers. Until not long ago, there was a very large sightseeing industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated violence have carved into this trade.
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 gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. 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, both of which have gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has 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 dens and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has cropped up, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will still be around until conditions improve is merely not known.