Zimbabwe Casinos
The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there might be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a higher desire to play, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For nearly all of the people subsisting on the abysmal local earnings, there are 2 dominant styles of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the winnings are also remarkably high. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that many don’t purchase a ticket with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the considerably rich of the society and sightseers. Until recently, there was a incredibly large sightseeing business, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected crime have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has deflated by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will still be around till conditions get better is simply unknown.