The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could envision that there might be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be operating the other way, with the awful economic circumstances leading to a greater eagerness to play, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the situation.
For nearly all of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are two dominant styles of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of succeeding are surprisingly low, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by financial experts who study the subject that many do not buy a ticket with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the very rich of the country and vacationers. Up till not long ago, there was a exceptionally big sightseeing business, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected crime have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 gambling den, which has just the 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, both of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it is not known how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on till things improve is merely unknown.
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