The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a higher eagerness to play, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For nearly all of the locals living on the meager local money, there are two dominant styles of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the chances of winning are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also extremely high. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the subject that most don’t buy a card with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the domestic or the United Kingston football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, look after the astonishingly rich of the nation and vacationers. Up until a short time ago, there was a extremely large tourist business, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated violence have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer 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, both of which has slot 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 beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has come to pass, it is not understood how well the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry through till conditions improve is merely unknown.