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The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could think that there might be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the atrocious economic circumstances creating a bigger desire to play, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For the majority of the citizens surviving on the meager local earnings, there are 2 established styles of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of winning are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a ticket with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, look after the astonishingly rich of the society and vacationers. Until recently, there was a very substantial sightseeing business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected crime have carved 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 gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. 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 table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not well-known how healthy the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry through till things get better is merely not known.
