Zimbabwe gambling halls
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there would be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the desperate economic circumstances leading to a bigger ambition to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For almost all of the people living on the tiny local money, there are 2 established styles of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of profiting are remarkably low, but then the winnings are also very high. It’s been said by economists who understand the subject that most don’t buy a ticket with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pander to the exceedingly rich of the country and sightseers. Up until a short time ago, there was a extremely big tourist business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected bloodshed have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 den, which has only slots. 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 two of which contain table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has diminished by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has cropped up, it is not known how well the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will be alive till things improve is basically not known.