Zimbabwe Casinos
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could think that there might be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the atrocious economic conditions creating a greater desire to bet, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For almost all of the citizens surviving on the tiny local wages, there are 2 dominant styles of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of winning are extremely small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who study the subject that most don’t buy a card with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the national or the English football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, cater to the incredibly rich of the nation and sightseers. Up until not long ago, there was a incredibly big sightseeing industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected crime have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slots. 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, both of which contain gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has arisen, it is not understood how well the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through until things get better is merely unknown.