Zimbabwe Casinos

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The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there might be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be working the other way, with the desperate market conditions creating a larger ambition to bet, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the crisis.

For the majority of the locals surviving on the meager nearby money, there are two dominant styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the chances of winning are remarkably small, but then the winnings are also extremely high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the concept that most do not buy a ticket with an actual expectation of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pamper the very rich of the nation and sightseeers. Up till a short time ago, there was a very large tourist industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected violence have cut into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Centre in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain 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, each of which offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the market has shrunk by more than 40 percentin the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how well the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through till things get better is merely unknown.