Zimbabwe gambling halls
Wednesday, 9. February 2022
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the atrocious economic circumstances creating a higher eagerness to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For the majority of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 dominant types of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the odds of hitting are extremely small, but then the prizes are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that the majority don’t purchase a ticket with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the state and vacationers. Up till not long ago, there was a incredibly substantial vacationing business, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated bloodshed have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 hall, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has come about, it isn’t understood how healthy the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will still be around until conditions get better is simply not known.
Posted in Casino by Gwendolyn