Zimbabwe Casinos
The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the crucial economic circumstances leading to a greater desire to bet, to try and find a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For the majority of the locals living on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 dominant types of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of winning are unbelievably low, but then the winnings are also extremely high. It’s been said by economists who study the subject that the lion’s share don’t buy a card with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, cater to the extremely rich of the society and sightseers. Up until a short while ago, there was a extremely large tourist industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated conflict have cut 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 one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. 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 pair of which have table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has resulted, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive till conditions get better is merely unknown.
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