Zimbabwe gambling dens
Posted in Casino on 07/11/2025 07:25 am by Anthony
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you might think that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the crucial market conditions creating a greater eagerness to gamble, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For many of the citizens living on the meager local wages, there are 2 popular types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of profiting are remarkably tiny, but then the winnings are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that most don’t buy a card with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the UK soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, look after the astonishingly rich of the country and vacationers. Up until recently, there was a extremely large sightseeing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated conflict have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. 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 contain gaming tables, one armed bandits 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 have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has deflated by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has arisen, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around till things improve is basically unknown.