The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the crucial economic conditions creating a greater ambition to gamble, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the problems.
For the majority of the locals subsisting on the abysmal nearby wages, there are two popular forms of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the odds of hitting are remarkably tiny, but then the winnings are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that the lion’s share don’t purchase a ticket with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the national or the British football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pamper the incredibly rich of the society and tourists. Until a short time ago, there was a considerably substantial vacationing business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected crime have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has deflated by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not understood how well the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on till conditions improve is merely not known.
