The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the crucial economic conditions creating a greater ambition to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For most of the locals living on the abysmal local wages, there are two dominant styles of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the chances of winning are surprisingly tiny, but then the jackpots are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that many do not purchase a card with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the state and vacationers. Up until not long ago, there was a extremely big vacationing business, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, 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, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also 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 shrunk by beyond 40% in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how healthy the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive till things improve is merely unknown.
