Zimbabwe Casinos
Friday, 22. March 2024
The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the awful economic conditions creating a greater desire to bet, to try and find a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For nearly all of the locals living on the meager nearby wages, there are 2 established types of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the odds of hitting are surprisingly low, but then the jackpots are also extremely high. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that most don’t purchase a card with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pander to the very rich of the state and vacationers. Until a short time ago, there was a incredibly big vacationing industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected bloodshed have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, slots 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 has video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has come about, it is not known how well the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry on until things improve is basically not known.
Posted in Casino by Gwendolyn