Zimbabwe gambling dens
Posted in Casino on 01/21/2016 05:21 pm by Marc
The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you may envision that there might be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the awful economic conditions leading to a larger desire to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For nearly all of the people living on the tiny local wages, there are 2 dominant forms of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the chances of hitting are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that the lion’s share don’t buy a card with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the very rich of the country and tourists. Until recently, there was a very large sightseeing business, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated conflict have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 gambling hall, 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 gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses 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 quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not known how well the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on until conditions improve is simply not known.