Zimbabwe Casinos
The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might think that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the critical market circumstances creating a greater ambition to gamble, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For the majority of the people living on the tiny local wages, there are two established styles of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the chances of profiting are remarkably tiny, but then the winnings are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that many don’t buy a card with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pamper the extremely rich of the country and sightseers. Up till recently, there was a very substantial tourist business, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated violence have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has diminished by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has resulted, it is not known how healthy the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on until things get better is basically not known.