The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you might think that there might be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a greater ambition to gamble, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For almost all of the people living on the meager local money, there are two common forms of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the odds of profiting are extremely small, but then the winnings are also very large. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that most don’t buy a card with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, mollycoddle the considerably rich of the nation and tourists. Up till recently, there was a very big sightseeing industry, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected conflict have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has diminished by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive until things get better is simply unknown.
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