Zimbabwe gambling dens
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a bigger desire to wager, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For many of the locals subsisting on the meager local money, there are 2 established styles of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of succeeding are extremely small, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that many do not purchase a card with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the state and vacationers. Up till a short time ago, there was a considerably big tourist business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected bloodshed have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two 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, the two of which has gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has contracted by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has resulted, it isn’t understood how healthy the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive until conditions get better is basically unknown.