The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you may think that there might be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the atrocious market circumstances creating a greater desire to play, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For nearly all of the people surviving on the tiny local earnings, there are 2 common styles of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of hitting are surprisingly tiny, but then the jackpots are also extremely high. It’s been said by economists who study the subject that the lion’s share do not purchase a card with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pamper the very rich of the state and travelers. Until a short time ago, there was a very big tourist industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are 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 diminished by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how healthy the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will still be around until things improve is simply not known.
