The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might think that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the crucial market circumstances creating a bigger ambition to gamble, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the meager local money, there are two popular styles of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of profiting are unbelievably small, but then the winnings are also very high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the situation that the majority don’t purchase a ticket with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the British soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pander to the astonishingly rich of the country and tourists. Up until a short time ago, there was a incredibly big sightseeing business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only 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, both of which have table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has deflated by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has arisen, it isn’t known how well the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will be alive till conditions improve is basically unknown.
