Zimbabwe Casinos
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the desperate market conditions creating a greater ambition to play, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For almost all of the locals surviving on the meager local earnings, there are 2 common styles of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of winning are extremely low, but then the winnings are also very large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the idea that most don’t purchase a ticket with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pander to the astonishingly rich of the society and travelers. Up till a short while ago, there was a considerably large vacationing business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. 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 two of which have 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, the two of which offer slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has contracted by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has arisen, it isn’t understood how well the tourist industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive until things improve is merely unknown.
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