Zimbabwe gambling halls
Tuesday, 15. October 2024
The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may think that there would be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the crucial economic conditions leading to a bigger eagerness to wager, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For many of the people living on the tiny local earnings, there are two popular forms of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also remarkably high. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that the majority don’t buy a card with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the considerably rich of the state and vacationers. Up till not long ago, there was a exceptionally big tourist business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected conflict have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has shrunk by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive until conditions get better is simply unknown.
Posted in Casino by Ricky