Zimbabwe Casinos
February 1st, 2020 at 22:25
The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the atrocious market conditions leading to a greater ambition to bet, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For the majority of the people subsisting on the meager local wages, there are 2 dominant types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the chances of succeeding are unbelievably low, but then the winnings are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the idea that most don’t buy a card with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the British soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the exceedingly rich of the state and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably large vacationing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated violence have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 hall, which has just the slot machine games. 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 contain table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it is not known how well the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will still be around till things improve is simply unknown.