The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there might be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be working the other way around, with the awful economic conditions creating a higher desire to play, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For almost all of the locals surviving on the abysmal nearby money, there are 2 established forms of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of profiting are extremely low, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the concept that many do not purchase a card with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the British football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pamper the incredibly rich of the state and travelers. Until recently, there was a incredibly big sightseeing business, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected bloodshed have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slots. 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 pair of which contain table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it isn’t understood how healthy the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on till conditions improve is merely not known.