The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might think that there would be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be functioning the opposite way around, with the critical economic conditions creating a greater eagerness to play, to attempt to find a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For most of the citizens surviving on the tiny local earnings, there are two popular styles of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the chances of succeeding are surprisingly low, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who understand the subject that many don’t buy a ticket with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on either the local or the English football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, look after the astonishingly rich of the nation and tourists. Up until a short time ago, there was a incredibly substantial sightseeing business, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected crime have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain gaming tables, slot machines 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 dens and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has come about, it is not well-known how well the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive until things get better is simply unknown.