Zimbabwe gambling dens
Friday, 16. December 2016
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might envision that there might be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be functioning the opposite way around, with the critical economic circumstances creating a higher ambition to play, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For many of the citizens living on the meager nearby money, there are two established forms of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of winning are remarkably low, but then the winnings are also remarkably big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that many do not purchase a ticket with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the national or the British football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the considerably rich of the state and sightseers. Until not long ago, there was a very large vacationing business, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 hall, which has just the slot machines. 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, both of which have gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and crime that has resulted, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive until things improve is basically not known.
Posted in Casino by Jaime