Zimbabwe Casinos
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the crucial market circumstances creating a larger desire to wager, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For nearly all of the locals living on the tiny nearby money, there are two established styles of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the chances of succeeding are surprisingly small, but then the jackpots are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that many don’t purchase a ticket with an actual assumption of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the national or the British football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the very rich of the country and vacationers. Up till a short while ago, there was a very large vacationing business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected crime have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 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 slot machines. 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, the pair of which have 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 have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has contracted by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has arisen, it is not understood how healthy the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around till things get better is merely unknown.