Zimbabwe Casinos
December 10th, 2019 at 12:25
The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you might imagine that there might be very little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the awful market circumstances leading to a greater eagerness to gamble, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For many of the locals surviving on the tiny nearby earnings, there are 2 dominant types of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the chances of winning are extremely small, but then the winnings are also very big. It’s been said by economists who look at the subject that most don’t buy a card with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the English football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the exceedingly rich of the society and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably large sightseeing business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected violence have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting 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.
Since the economy has deflated by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has arisen, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on till things get better is merely not known.