• Home

Read more about the
Las Vegas 2024 Super
Bowl Streaker!

The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may think that there might be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be working the other way, with the awful market conditions leading to a bigger eagerness to play, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the situation.

For nearly all of the citizens surviving on the abysmal nearby earnings, there are 2 common styles of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the chances of succeeding are remarkably tiny, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by economists who study the subject that most don’t buy a ticket with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the national or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the very rich of the country and travelers. Up till a short while ago, there was a incredibly big vacationing business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated conflict have carved into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair 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, each of which has video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the market has diminished by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how healthy the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive till conditions improve is basically not known.

Log in