Zimbabwe Casinos
Sunday, 3. April 2016
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the desperate economic circumstances creating a greater ambition to bet, to try and find a fast win, a way from the situation.
For almost all of the citizens living on the abysmal local money, there are two dominant types of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the chances of profiting are remarkably low, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that most do not buy a card with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the domestic or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the country and tourists. Up until a short time ago, there was a considerably substantial tourist business, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slots. 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, both of which contain gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are 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.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it is not known how healthy the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will be alive until conditions get better is basically unknown.
Posted in Casino by Ricky