Zimbabwe Casinos
The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there might be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be working the other way around, with the atrocious economic conditions leading to a greater desire to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For the majority of the locals subsisting on the meager nearby money, there are 2 established forms of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the odds of succeeding are extremely low, but then the jackpots are also very big. It’s been said by economists who understand the subject that many don’t purchase a card with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the national or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the exceedingly rich of the society and tourists. Until a short while ago, there was a exceptionally large tourist business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected crime have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is 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 economy has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has resulted, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on till things improve is basically unknown.