Zimbabwe gambling dens
Monday, 22. February 2010
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a greater ambition to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way from the situation.
For many of the people subsisting on the meager nearby earnings, there are 2 popular forms of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of profiting are extremely tiny, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that most don’t purchase a card with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pamper the very rich of the nation and tourists. Until a short time ago, there was a considerably large vacationing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected conflict have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, 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 offer gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has diminished by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has come about, it isn’t known how well the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive till conditions get better is basically not known.
Posted in Casino by Gwendolyn