Zimbabwe Casinos
by Stanley on Thursday, January 24th, 2019
The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might envision that there might be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the desperate economic conditions leading to a greater eagerness to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For almost all of the locals surviving on the abysmal local money, there are 2 common styles of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the chances of winning are remarkably small, but then the prizes are also very high. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that most do not purchase a ticket with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the exceedingly rich of the society and sightseers. Up until recently, there was a very big vacationing business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated conflict have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has deflated by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it is not known how well the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive till conditions get better is merely unknown.
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