The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could think that there would be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be working the other way, with the awful economic conditions creating a higher eagerness to wager, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For almost all of the people subsisting on the meager local wages, there are 2 common types of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the chances of succeeding are extremely tiny, but then the prizes are also very high. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the concept that many do not purchase a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the UK football leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the incredibly rich of the nation and sightseers. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably large vacationing industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected bloodshed have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 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 just the slot machines. 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, both of which offer table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and crime that has come to pass, it is not understood how healthy the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will survive until things get better is basically not known.
