Zimbabwe Casinos
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could envision that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the desperate market conditions creating a higher desire to wager, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For most of the locals surviving on the tiny local earnings, there are 2 established types of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the odds of profiting are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also very high. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the idea that most don’t buy a card with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pander to the considerably rich of the state and tourists. Up till recently, there was a very large vacationing business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime have cut 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 gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has contracted by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around until conditions get better is merely unknown.