The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may think that there might be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a higher eagerness to gamble, to try and find a fast win, a way from the problems.
For nearly all of the locals subsisting on the abysmal nearby earnings, there are 2 established forms of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of profiting are extremely small, but then the jackpots are also remarkably big. It’s been said by financial experts who study the concept that the lion’s share do not buy a card with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the domestic or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, cater to the incredibly rich of the state and vacationers. Until a short while ago, there was a considerably large tourist industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected violence have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has contracted by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and crime that has come about, it is not well-known how healthy the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through until things improve is simply not known.
