Casino Tips

Read more about the
Las Vegas 2024 Super
Bowl Streaker!

The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might envision that there might be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the desperate economic conditions leading to a greater eagerness to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the difficulty.

For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the tiny nearby wages, there are two common forms of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of hitting are unbelievably small, but then the winnings are also remarkably big. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the idea that most do not buy a ticket with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the British football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the extremely rich of the country and vacationers. Up till not long ago, there was a very large tourist industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated crime have carved into this trade.

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

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 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the market has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will survive till conditions get better is merely unknown.