Zimbabwe gambling halls
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there might be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the awful market circumstances leading to a bigger eagerness to gamble, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For most of the people living on the meager nearby wages, there are 2 common forms of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of hitting are extremely small, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that most don’t buy a card with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, look after the incredibly rich of the country and travelers. Until a short time ago, there was a extremely large sightseeing industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated conflict have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 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 machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has resulted, it is not well-known how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive until things get better is merely unknown.
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