Zimbabwe gambling halls
Monday, 23. October 2023
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might envision that there would be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the awful market circumstances creating a higher ambition to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For nearly all of the citizens living on the abysmal local wages, there are two established types of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of winning are remarkably small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who look at the idea that many don’t purchase a card with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is based on either the local or the British soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, cater to the considerably rich of the state and sightseers. Up until a short time ago, there was a incredibly substantial tourist business, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected violence have cut 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 only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has contracted by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not well-known how well the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry on till things get better is simply not known.
Posted in Casino by Lance