Zimbabwe Casinos
The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there might be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the crucial economic conditions leading to a bigger desire to wager, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For many of the locals surviving on the abysmal local money, there are two popular types of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of hitting are extremely small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the concept that most do not buy a card with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the extremely rich of the country and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a very big vacationing industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two 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 slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has come about, it is not understood how well the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive until things improve is simply not known.
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