11
March
Written by Tristan.
Posted in: Casino
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there would be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the desperate economic circumstances leading to a bigger desire to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal nearby wages, there are two common types of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of winning are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by financial experts who study the situation that most don’t purchase a card with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the national or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the very rich of the society and vacationers. Until not long ago, there was a very large vacationing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated conflict have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has contracted by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive till things improve is merely unknown.
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