The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the awful market circumstances leading to a larger desire to gamble, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way from the problems.
For most of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are two common styles of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of winning are remarkably small, but then the winnings are also very high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the idea that the lion’s share don’t purchase a card with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the astonishingly rich of the country and sightseers. Up until not long ago, there was a incredibly large vacationing industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected bloodshed have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 Casino, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer 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 offer video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it is not known how healthy the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will be alive until conditions improve is simply not known.