Zimbabwe gambling halls
Saturday, 13. November 2021
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might think that there might be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be working the other way around, with the desperate market conditions leading to a higher desire to bet, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For many of the citizens living on the meager local money, there are two established forms of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of hitting are remarkably tiny, but then the jackpots are also remarkably high. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that most do not buy a card with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, look after the very rich of the society and travelers. Up until not long ago, there was a incredibly large tourist business, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected bloodshed have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 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, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has contracted by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how healthy the vacationing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive until things get better is merely unknown.
Posted in Casino by Lance