Zimbabwe gambling halls
The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could think that there would be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the atrocious market circumstances creating a higher desire to play, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way from the problems.
For most of the people subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are two common forms of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of succeeding are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also remarkably big. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that the majority don’t purchase a ticket with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the incredibly rich of the society and vacationers. Up until not long ago, there was a exceptionally substantial tourist business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected violence have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. 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 table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has contracted by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has resulted, it is not known how well the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry through until conditions improve is basically not known.