Zimbabwe gambling halls
April 10th, 2022 at 13:25
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there would be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the atrocious economic conditions creating a larger ambition to wager, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For many of the locals subsisting on the meager local wages, there are 2 common forms of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of winning are remarkably tiny, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that many don’t buy a card with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the considerably rich of the country and travelers. Until recently, there was a very large sightseeing business, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has resulted, it is not understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around until conditions get better is simply unknown.