The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could think that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the atrocious economic conditions leading to a greater eagerness to wager, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For most of the citizens living on the tiny local earnings, there are two established styles of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the odds of succeeding are extremely tiny, but then the jackpots are also remarkably big. It’s been said by economists who study the idea that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the society and vacationers. Up till a short time ago, there was a extremely large vacationing business, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse 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 Casino, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair 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 has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the state: 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 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how healthy the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry through until things improve is simply not known.
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