The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you may imagine that there would be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the awful economic circumstances creating a larger desire to gamble, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the problems.
For many of the citizens living on the meager local earnings, there are two dominant styles of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the chances of hitting are remarkably low, but then the winnings are also very high. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that most don’t purchase a ticket with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the extremely rich of the state and travelers. Up until a short time ago, there was a incredibly large vacationing business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected bloodshed have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how healthy the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive till things improve is merely unknown.
