Zimbabwe gambling dens
Wednesday, 10. July 2024
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may think that there might be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the desperate market conditions leading to a larger desire to wager, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the people living on the meager nearby wages, there are two common types of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the odds of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the jackpots are also extremely large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the concept that the majority do not buy a ticket with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is founded on one of the national or the UK soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pander to the astonishingly rich of the state and travelers. Up till a short while ago, there was a considerably substantial tourist industry, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated conflict have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer 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, the two of which has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has deflated by beyond 40% in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive till conditions improve is merely unknown.
Posted in Casino by Lance