The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may think that there might be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the atrocious market conditions leading to a larger eagerness to wager, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For almost all of the people surviving on the meager local money, there are two popular types of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of winning are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the subject that most do not purchase a card with an actual assumption of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the domestic or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, look after the considerably rich of the nation and vacationers. Until recently, there was a considerably big sightseeing business, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected crime have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slots. 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 offer gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has contracted by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will be alive till conditions improve is simply not known.
