Zimbabwe Casinos
November 2nd, 2022 at 9:25
The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there might be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the desperate market conditions creating a bigger desire to wager, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For many of the locals surviving on the tiny local wages, there are two dominant styles of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of hitting are remarkably low, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the situation that the majority don’t buy a card with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the national or the UK football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, cater to the astonishingly rich of the country and vacationers. Up till a short time ago, there was a extremely substantial sightseeing business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected crime have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 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 only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is 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.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has cropped up, it is not well-known how healthy the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around till conditions improve is simply not known.