Zimbabwe Casinos
Saturday, 24. February 2018
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be working the other way, with the awful economic circumstances creating a bigger desire to wager, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For almost all of the locals surviving on the tiny local earnings, there are 2 dominant styles of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of profiting are extremely small, but then the winnings are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that many do not buy a ticket with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the very rich of the society and vacationers. Until recently, there was a extremely big tourist industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety 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 five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has contracted by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and crime that has cropped up, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry on until conditions improve is simply unknown.
Posted in Casino by Lance