Zimbabwe Casinos
Posted in Casino on 08/27/2015 01:21 am by Marc
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the critical market conditions leading to a greater eagerness to play, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For almost all of the people surviving on the meager local money, there are 2 popular forms of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of winning are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also remarkably big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the idea that the majority do not purchase a card with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, look after the exceedingly rich of the state and sightseers. Up until a short time ago, there was a considerably big sightseeing business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated violence have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only 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, both of which have table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses 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 casinos and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has deflated by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has resulted, it is not known how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive till conditions get better is simply not known.