Zimbabwe Casinos

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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might think that there might be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be operating the other way, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a higher eagerness to gamble, to try and find a fast win, a way from the situation.

For nearly all of the locals subsisting on the tiny local earnings, there are two popular types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the chances of winning are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that many don’t buy a ticket with a real belief of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the very rich of the nation and sightseers. Up till not long ago, there was a very substantial vacationing industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated conflict have carved into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two 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 only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has video poker machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the market has shrunk by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and crime that has arisen, it isn’t known how healthy the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around till conditions improve is simply not known.