Zimbabwe gambling halls
Thursday, 26. November 2015
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could think that there would be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the crucial economic circumstances creating a greater desire to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For the majority of the locals subsisting on the tiny local money, there are 2 dominant types of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the chances of profiting are remarkably tiny, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the idea that the lion’s share do not buy a ticket with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pamper the incredibly rich of the nation and sightseers. Until a short time ago, there was a exceptionally big vacationing business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both 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, each of which have gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has deflated by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has resulted, it is not well-known how healthy the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through till things improve is basically unknown.
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