The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a bigger eagerness to gamble, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the problems.
For nearly all of the locals subsisting on the meager local earnings, there are two dominant types of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of winning are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the subject that the majority do not purchase a ticket with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the national or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, look after the considerably rich of the country and vacationers. Up until not long ago, there was a exceptionally substantial vacationing business, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected bloodshed have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how well the sightseeing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around until things improve is simply unknown.
