Zimbabwe gambling dens
Saturday, 14. November 2009
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you may envision that there would be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be operating the other way, with the awful market circumstances leading to a larger ambition to play, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For many of the locals subsisting on the tiny local money, there are two established types of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the odds of succeeding are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also extremely large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the idea that many don’t buy a ticket with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the British football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the incredibly rich of the country and tourists. Until recently, there was a extremely big tourist industry, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected violence have cut 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 just the slots. 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, the pair of which have table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls 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 nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and crime that has come about, it is not understood how healthy the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry through till things get better is basically unknown.
Posted in Casino by Lance