Zimbabwe Casinos
Posted in Casino on 12/25/2009 05:21 pm by MarcThe entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way, with the awful market conditions creating a bigger ambition to bet, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For many of the citizens living on the meager local money, there are two dominant forms of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of succeeding are unbelievably small, but then the winnings are also very big. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that many do not buy a ticket with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the United Kingston football leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the state and sightseers. Up till recently, there was a extremely big sightseeing industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected crime 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 slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video 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 blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has deflated by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has resulted, it is not well-known how healthy the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive till things get better is simply unknown.