Zimbabwe Casinos
October 11th, 2021 at 11:25
The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you may envision that there might be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the awful market circumstances leading to a greater eagerness to play, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For most of the people surviving on the meager nearby wages, there are two dominant types of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of profiting are remarkably low, but then the prizes are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a ticket with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, cater to the very rich of the society and sightseers. Up till recently, there was a extremely large tourist business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected crime 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 Casino, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has contracted by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has come to pass, it is not known how well the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will still be around until things improve is merely not known.