The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could think that there might be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the atrocious market conditions leading to a higher eagerness to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For the majority of the people living on the tiny local earnings, there are two established styles of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the odds of profiting are remarkably small, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the concept that most don’t buy a ticket with the rational expectation of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the United Kingston football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, cater to the astonishingly rich of the nation and travelers. Until a short time ago, there was a extremely large sightseeing business, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated bloodshed have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has contracted by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not understood how well the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry through until things get better is simply not known.
