The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could think that there would be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the critical economic circumstances leading to a higher desire to bet, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For many of the people living on the abysmal local money, there are two common forms of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the chances of succeeding are surprisingly low, but then the prizes are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a ticket with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the national or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, look after the astonishingly rich of the state and vacationers. Up until not long ago, there was a incredibly large sightseeing business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated crime have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. 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 machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not well-known how healthy the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive till conditions get better is merely not known.