Zimbabwe Casinos
May 9th, 2024 at 1:25
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could think that there would be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the atrocious economic conditions leading to a larger ambition to bet, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the situation.
For almost all of the citizens living on the tiny local money, there are 2 dominant styles of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of winning are remarkably small, but then the prizes are also very large. It’s been said by economists who look at the subject that the lion’s share do not purchase a card with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the British football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pander to the very rich of the country and travelers. Up until not long ago, there was a extremely large tourist business, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected violence have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer video poker 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 are also two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has deflated by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and crime that has come about, it isn’t well-known how healthy the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will still be around till things get better is basically unknown.