Zimbabwe Casinos
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the atrocious market conditions leading to a bigger ambition to gamble, to try and find a fast win, a way from the problems.
For many of the locals living on the meager nearby wages, there are two dominant forms of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of succeeding are surprisingly small, but then the prizes are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that most don’t buy a card with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the UK football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the very rich of the nation and vacationers. Until not long ago, there was a very substantial tourist industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated conflict have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has diminished by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has arisen, it isn’t understood how well the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will still be around till conditions get better is basically unknown.
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