Zimbabwe gambling halls
Saturday, 19. December 2009
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could think that there would be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the desperate economic circumstances leading to a higher desire to wager, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For most of the locals subsisting on the meager local money, there are 2 popular styles of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that many don’t buy a ticket with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pander to the extremely rich of the country and sightseers. Up until a short time ago, there was a exceptionally big vacationing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, 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 offer gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and crime that has cropped up, it is not well-known how healthy the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around till things improve is simply unknown.
Posted in Casino by Allisson