Zimbabwe Casinos
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may think that there might be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the awful market conditions creating a larger desire to play, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For many of the locals living on the abysmal nearby money, there are 2 popular forms of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that the lion’s share do not purchase a ticket with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the state and tourists. Until not long ago, there was a considerably large vacationing industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among 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 hall, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slot machines 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 tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has contracted by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has come to pass, it is not known how well the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will still be around till conditions improve is merely unknown.