Zimbabwe gambling halls
The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might envision that there might be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the atrocious economic circumstances creating a greater ambition to wager, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For many of the locals living on the meager local money, there are 2 established types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of winning are surprisingly small, but then the winnings are also very large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the subject that most do not buy a ticket with the rational expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pamper the exceedingly rich of the nation and tourists. Up until recently, there was a extremely substantial sightseeing industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected crime have cut into this market.
Amongst 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 only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, 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 video poker machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has deflated by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and crime that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive till conditions improve is merely unknown.