Zimbabwe gambling halls

by Rory on January 15th, 2016

[ English ]

The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there might be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a larger desire to wager, to attempt to find a fast win, a way from the difficulty.

For many of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are two popular styles of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the chances of succeeding are extremely low, but then the prizes are also very high. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a card with an actual assumption of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the British soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, cater to the extremely rich of the society and sightseers. Until a short while ago, there was a exceptionally big vacationing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated crime have carved into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two 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 only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have slot machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has diminished by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has cropped up, it is not understood how well the sightseeing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive until conditions get better is merely unknown.

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