The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could think that there might be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be working the other way, with the awful market conditions creating a greater ambition to play, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For most of the people subsisting on the tiny local earnings, there are two common types of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the odds of profiting are extremely low, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that most do not buy a card with an actual assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the national or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, look after the very rich of the state and tourists. Up till a short time ago, there was a considerably substantial vacationing business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected violence have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slot machines 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 offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t known how well the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry on until conditions improve is merely not known.
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