Zimbabwe gambling halls
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you may imagine that there might be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be working the other way, with the crucial market conditions leading to a higher desire to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the problems.
For nearly all of the citizens living on the abysmal local money, there are two established styles of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are remarkably small, but then the jackpots are also very large. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that many don’t purchase a card with the rational expectation of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the exceedingly rich of the society and tourists. Up until recently, there was a very substantial vacationing industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, 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 have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens 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 nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has come about, it is not known how well the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through until things improve is merely not known.