Zimbabwe Casinos
The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there might be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the awful market conditions creating a higher desire to bet, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For many of the people surviving on the meager local money, there are two dominant forms of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of winning are remarkably small, but then the winnings are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a ticket with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the British football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pander to the exceedingly rich of the country and tourists. Until not long ago, there was a extremely substantial vacationing business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected violence have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. 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, the two of which contain table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has diminished by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has come to pass, it is not understood how well the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive till things get better is merely not known.