Zimbabwe gambling dens
Friday, 14. July 2023
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could think that there would be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a higher eagerness to bet, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For the majority of the locals subsisting on the meager nearby earnings, there are two dominant types of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the chances of hitting are unbelievably small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the concept that the lion’s share don’t purchase a ticket with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the incredibly rich of the state and sightseers. Up until a short time ago, there was a extremely substantial sightseeing industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. 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, the pair of which offer table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has shrunk by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t understood how healthy the tourist industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around until things improve is simply unknown.
Posted in Casino by Alivia