The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the critical market circumstances leading to a larger ambition to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the problems.
For nearly all of the people surviving on the tiny local earnings, there are 2 established forms of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the chances of hitting are unbelievably tiny, but then the winnings are also remarkably high. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that most don’t purchase a card with the rational assumption of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the UK soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pamper the exceedingly rich of the nation and tourists. Up till recently, there was a extremely large vacationing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated crime have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, 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 two of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is 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.
Given that the market has diminished by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t known how healthy the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on until conditions improve is basically unknown.
