The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you might think that there might be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be working the other way around, with the crucial economic conditions leading to a larger desire to bet, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For nearly all of the citizens living on the meager local money, there are 2 popular styles of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the chances of succeeding are extremely tiny, but then the prizes are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the concept that the majority do not purchase a card with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pamper the astonishingly rich of the state and sightseers. Up till recently, there was a incredibly big vacationing industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 just the slot machine games. 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 have gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously 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 second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it is not understood how well the sightseeing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry on until conditions get better is merely unknown.
