Zimbabwe gambling dens
The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may think that there might be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the awful market conditions leading to a bigger eagerness to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the problems.
For many of the locals subsisting on the tiny local money, there are 2 established styles of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the odds of succeeding are extremely low, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a card with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, look after the extremely rich of the nation and tourists. Until not long ago, there was a exceptionally substantial tourist business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has deflated by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not understood how healthy the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through until conditions get better is merely not known.