Zimbabwe gambling halls
Tuesday, 15. February 2022
The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may think that there might be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a larger eagerness to bet, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For most of the locals living on the meager nearby wages, there are two dominant forms of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the odds of profiting are remarkably small, but then the winnings are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by economists who study the idea that the majority do not buy a card with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the UK football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, look after the astonishingly rich of the society and travelers. Up till recently, there was a exceptionally big vacationing industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated crime have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has resulted, it is not known how well the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive till conditions get better is merely unknown.
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