Zimbabwe Casinos
Sunday, 27. August 2023
The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might think that there might be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be functioning the opposite way around, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a bigger ambition to wager, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For the majority of the people living on the meager local money, there are 2 popular types of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of winning are remarkably low, but then the jackpots are also remarkably big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that many do not purchase a ticket with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the UK soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, cater to the very rich of the country and tourists. Until recently, there was a incredibly big sightseeing industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected crime have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 gambling hall, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have table games, slots and electronic 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 blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has contracted by beyond 40% in recent years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has come to pass, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on till things get better is simply unknown.
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