Zimbabwe Casinos
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there might be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be operating the opposite way, with the awful market conditions leading to a bigger eagerness to bet, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For almost all of the locals subsisting on the tiny local wages, there are 2 dominant styles of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of succeeding are extremely small, but then the prizes are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by economists who look at the idea that most do not purchase a card with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the UK soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, pander to the astonishingly rich of the country and vacationers. Up until recently, there was a considerably large vacationing industry, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected conflict have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has contracted by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has arisen, it is not well-known how healthy the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will still be around till conditions get better is merely unknown.