Zimbabwe gambling halls
Wednesday, 14. October 2015
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there might be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a greater ambition to bet, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For many of the locals surviving on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 common styles of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the chances of profiting are extremely low, but then the winnings are also very big. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that many don’t purchase a card with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, cater to the very rich of the country and sightseers. Until a short time ago, there was a extremely large sightseeing industry, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected conflict have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. 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, the two of which have gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has contracted by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it isn’t understood how well the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will be alive until things get better is basically unknown.
Posted in Casino by Gwendolyn