Zimbabwe Casinos
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the desperate economic circumstances creating a greater eagerness to wager, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For the majority of the people surviving on the abysmal nearby wages, there are two established styles of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of profiting are extremely low, but then the winnings are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that the majority do not buy a ticket with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the UK football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the country and tourists. Up until a short while ago, there was a extremely large sightseeing business, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected violence have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has contracted by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive until conditions get better is simply unknown.