Zimbabwe gambling dens
Posted in Casino on 01/28/2018 03:27 am by Anthony
The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may imagine that there might be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be operating the other way, with the desperate market circumstances creating a greater desire to wager, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For many of the locals subsisting on the meager local earnings, there are two popular types of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are unbelievably tiny, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the concept that many do not purchase a card with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the British football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, cater to the exceedingly rich of the country and sightseers. Up until recently, there was a very large sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected bloodshed have cut into this trade.
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 Casino, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t known how well the vacationing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on until things get better is merely unknown.