The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there might be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be working the other way, with the atrocious economic circumstances creating a higher eagerness to wager, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For the majority of the locals surviving on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 popular styles of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of profiting are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also remarkably large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the concept that many do not purchase a card with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is based on either the national or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, mollycoddle the very rich of the nation and tourists. Up till a short while ago, there was a considerably substantial vacationing industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated violence 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 one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above alluded to 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 second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not well-known how healthy the vacationing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will be alive until things improve is merely not known.
