Zimbabwe Casinos
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be operating the other way, with the desperate market conditions creating a larger eagerness to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the situation.
For the majority of the citizens surviving on the tiny local wages, there are 2 established styles of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of winning are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the concept that the lion’s share do not purchase a card with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the British soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the country and vacationers. Until recently, there was a considerably substantial sightseeing business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected violence have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. 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, both of which offer table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has come about, it is not understood how well the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will still be around till conditions improve is merely not known.