Zimbabwe gambling dens
Friday, 4. September 2015
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you may think that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be working the other way around, with the desperate economic conditions leading to a greater ambition to bet, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For many of the people surviving on the tiny local earnings, there are 2 common forms of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of profiting are surprisingly tiny, but then the jackpots are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the UK football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the incredibly rich of the state and sightseers. Up till a short time ago, there was a very substantial vacationing business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has deflated by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will be alive till conditions improve is merely not known.
Posted in Casino by Jett