Zimbabwe gambling halls
Tuesday, 22. December 2015
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way, with the crucial economic conditions leading to a higher ambition to wager, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For many of the locals subsisting on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 common types of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of succeeding are unbelievably low, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that many do not purchase a ticket with the rational assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the British football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the state and travelers. Up till not long ago, there was a very substantial sightseeing business, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, slot machines 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 offer video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has diminished by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has resulted, it is not known how well the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive till conditions get better is basically unknown.
Posted in Casino by Amelie