The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might think that there might be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the critical market conditions creating a bigger desire to wager, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For almost all of the citizens living on the abysmal local money, there are two dominant styles of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the winnings are also very high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the idea that the lion’s share do not buy a card with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, cater to the astonishingly rich of the country and travelers. Up till not long ago, there was a extremely large tourist business, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected conflict have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has shrunk by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and crime that has arisen, it isn’t well-known how healthy the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions improve is merely not known.
