The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you may envision that there would be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the desperate economic circumstances leading to a bigger desire to wager, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the difficulty.
For most of the locals subsisting on the meager nearby money, there are 2 common types of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the chances of succeeding are extremely low, but then the jackpots are also remarkably big. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that the lion’s share don’t purchase a card with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the British soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the astonishingly rich of the country and sightseers. Until a short time ago, there was a very big tourist business, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected crime have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 den, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses 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 casinos and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated poverty and crime that has cropped up, it isn’t known how healthy the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive until things get better is basically not known.
