Read more about the
Las Vegas 2024 Super
Bowl Streaker!

The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there might be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be working the other way around, with the awful economic conditions creating a larger desire to play, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the difficulty.

For almost all of the people surviving on the meager local wages, there are two dominant types of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the odds of winning are remarkably small, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that most don’t purchase a card with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pamper the incredibly rich of the state and vacationers. Until recently, there was a extremely big tourist business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated violence have cut into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the economy has contracted by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has come to pass, it isn’t known how well the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry on till conditions get better is simply unknown.