The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be very little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the awful economic conditions leading to a higher eagerness to wager, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For almost all of the people surviving on the abysmal nearby money, there are 2 popular forms of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by financial experts who study the situation that the majority do not buy a card with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the astonishingly rich of the nation and travelers. Up until not long ago, there was a incredibly large tourist business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected crime have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has resulted, it is not known how healthy the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around till conditions improve is basically unknown.
