The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the atrocious market conditions leading to a bigger ambition to bet, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For most of the citizens subsisting on the tiny nearby wages, there are two dominant forms of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the chances of hitting are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also extremely large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the subject that many do not purchase a card with a real belief of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, cater to the very rich of the nation and sightseers. Up until not long ago, there was a incredibly big sightseeing business, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected conflict have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. 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, the pair of which offer table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has contracted by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t known how well the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will still be around until conditions improve is basically unknown.
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