Zimbabwe gambling halls
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the awful economic conditions creating a greater desire to gamble, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For many of the locals surviving on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 established types of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are surprisingly low, but then the prizes are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by financial experts who study the concept that most do not buy a ticket with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the English football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the incredibly rich of the nation and tourists. Until not long ago, there was a considerably big sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated crime have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slots. 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 have table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has contracted by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has come to pass, it is not known how well the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will be alive until things get better is basically unknown.