The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could envision that there would be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a bigger desire to gamble, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the situation.
For almost all of the locals subsisting on the tiny local money, there are two dominant forms of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the odds of winning are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that most don’t purchase a card with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the English football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pander to the astonishingly rich of the country and tourists. Up till not long ago, there was a considerably big tourist business, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, 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 gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to 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 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has come to pass, it isn’t known how healthy the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive until things improve is basically not known.
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