Zimbabwe Casinos
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the crucial economic conditions leading to a bigger ambition to play, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For nearly all of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 dominant forms of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of hitting are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also extremely large. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that many do not buy a card with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, cater to the astonishingly rich of the state and sightseers. Until a short while ago, there was a incredibly large tourist industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated bloodshed have carved into this trade.
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 gambling den, 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, both of which contain gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has arisen, it is not known how healthy the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive till conditions get better is merely not known.