Zimbabwe Casinos
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be working the other way, with the awful economic conditions leading to a bigger ambition to bet, to try and find a fast win, a way from the situation.
For nearly all of the citizens surviving on the abysmal nearby wages, there are two popular types of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the odds of winning are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that the lion’s share do not buy a ticket with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the English football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the incredibly rich of the country and tourists. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably large tourist business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. 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 gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has contracted by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has resulted, it is not known how well the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around until conditions improve is basically not known.