The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the desperate market conditions leading to a larger eagerness to wager, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For most of the citizens living on the abysmal nearby money, there are two dominant types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the chances of winning are extremely tiny, but then the jackpots are also extremely big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that many don’t purchase a card with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the domestic or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the considerably rich of the nation and tourists. Up till not long ago, there was a extremely substantial tourist business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected crime have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has come about, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing industry 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 simply not known.