Zimbabwe Casinos
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you may envision that there might be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be working the other way, with the awful market conditions leading to a higher desire to play, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way from the situation.
For the majority of the people surviving on the meager local wages, there are two dominant forms of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the chances of profiting are unbelievably small, but then the winnings are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that most don’t buy a ticket with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the English football leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, pander to the extremely rich of the state and vacationers. Up till a short while ago, there was a extremely big vacationing business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.
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 hall, 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 have table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has diminished by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has resulted, it isn’t understood how well the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions improve is simply not known.