Zimbabwe gambling dens
Posted in Casino on 02/09/2018 11:25 pm by Jude
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a greater eagerness to gamble, to attempt to find a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For nearly all of the people surviving on the tiny local wages, there are two popular styles of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of winning are surprisingly tiny, but then the prizes are also very large. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that most do not purchase a ticket with the rational assumption of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, look after the considerably rich of the state and travelers. Until not long ago, there was a exceptionally substantial sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated violence have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer 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 gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has deflated by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has come about, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions get better is basically unknown.