Home > Casino > Zimbabwe gambling halls

Zimbabwe gambling halls

January 15th, 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments
[ English | Deutsch | Español | Français | Italiano ]

The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could envision that there might be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be working the other way around, with the atrocious economic conditions creating a higher eagerness to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.

For nearly all of the locals living on the tiny nearby money, there are 2 dominant types of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the chances of hitting are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also very high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the concept that the lion’s share don’t buy a card with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, cater to the very rich of the state and vacationers. Up till recently, there was a incredibly large vacationing industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated crime have cut into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two 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 slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has gaming machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has arisen, it is not understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive until things get better is basically not known.

  1. No comments yet.
  1. No trackbacks yet.
You must be logged in to post a comment.