The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could think that there might be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the atrocious market conditions leading to a larger desire to bet, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the situation.
For the majority of the citizens living on the meager local earnings, there are 2 dominant styles of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of profiting are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the concept that the lion’s share don’t purchase a card with a real belief of winning. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, look after the astonishingly rich of the society and tourists. Up until a short time ago, there was a incredibly big vacationing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected violence have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has deflated by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has arisen, it isn’t well-known how healthy the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will still be around until conditions get better is simply unknown.