Zimbabwe gambling dens
August 25th, 2022 at 19:25
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the awful market conditions creating a larger desire to bet, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For many of the locals subsisting on the tiny local money, there are 2 established styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of winning are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also very high. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that many don’t purchase a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the English football leagues and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the society and vacationers. Until recently, there was a extremely big tourist industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated violence have carved into this market.
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 hall, which has just the 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 two of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has contracted by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how healthy the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive until things get better is simply not known.