Zimbabwe Casinos
Monday, 31. August 2020
The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could envision that there would be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the awful economic circumstances leading to a higher desire to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For almost all of the locals surviving on the abysmal local earnings, there are two popular types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of profiting are remarkably small, but then the jackpots are also extremely high. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that many don’t purchase a ticket with the rational assumption of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, cater to the exceedingly rich of the society and travelers. Until not long ago, there was a considerably large tourist industry, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated violence have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, 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 gaming tables, slot machines 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 have slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t understood how healthy the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive till conditions get better is simply unknown.
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