The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may envision that there might be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the critical economic circumstances leading to a higher eagerness to play, to try and find a quick win, a way from the problems.
For nearly all of the locals subsisting on the tiny local money, there are 2 common forms of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that many do not buy a card with the rational assumption of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, cater to the astonishingly rich of the state and tourists. Until recently, there was a considerably substantial vacationing business, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated crime have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, 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, both of which have gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated talked about 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 metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has resulted, it is not understood how well the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry through till conditions improve is merely unknown.
