Zimbabwe gambling dens
January 2nd, 2022 at 10:25
The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the awful economic circumstances leading to a bigger desire to play, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the crisis.
For most of the people subsisting on the tiny local wages, there are two common types of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the odds of hitting are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that the lion’s share don’t buy a card with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the English football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, look after the incredibly rich of the state and sightseers. Up till a short while ago, there was a incredibly big sightseeing business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected bloodshed have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. 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, the pair of which have gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has deflated by beyond 40% in recent years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has arisen, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive until conditions improve is simply unknown.