13
April
Written by Kian.
Posted in: Casino
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you may think that there might be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the desperate market conditions creating a bigger ambition to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the crisis.
For the majority of the locals subsisting on the meager local wages, there are two established forms of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the chances of succeeding are surprisingly small, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that the lion’s share don’t buy a card with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the very rich of the society and tourists. Up till a short time ago, there was a extremely substantial vacationing industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated bloodshed 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 five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, one armed bandits 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 have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has diminished by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has come about, it is not understood how well the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on until things improve is basically unknown.
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