Zimbabwe Casinos
Saturday, 18. March 2017
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might envision that there might be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a greater ambition to play, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For the majority of the people living on the tiny local money, there are 2 dominant styles of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of profiting are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that many do not buy a ticket with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pamper the incredibly rich of the country and tourists. Up till a short while ago, there was a exceptionally big sightseeing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated conflict have carved 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 Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has contracted by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has come to pass, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through till conditions get better is basically unknown.
Posted in Casino by Gwendolyn