Zimbabwe Casinos
The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the desperate economic circumstances creating a larger ambition to wager, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For many of the locals subsisting on the tiny nearby wages, there are two established styles of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of profiting are unbelievably low, but then the jackpots are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that many don’t buy a card with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, cater to the incredibly rich of the society and travelers. Until a short while ago, there was a considerably substantial sightseeing business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated crime have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. 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 pair of which contain gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has contracted by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has come to pass, it is not understood how well the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on till conditions get better is basically unknown.
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