Zimbabwe gambling dens
Wednesday, 17. January 2024
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the awful economic conditions leading to a greater ambition to bet, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the problems.
For nearly all of the people surviving on the meager nearby earnings, there are 2 dominant forms of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the chances of winning are unbelievably low, but then the jackpots are also remarkably big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the idea that most do not buy a card with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the British football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, mollycoddle the very rich of the society and vacationers. Up until not long ago, there was a very substantial sightseeing business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated conflict have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have 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, each of which has slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has cropped up, it is not understood how healthy the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive till conditions improve is simply not known.
Posted in Casino by Carla