Zimbabwe gambling halls
Sunday, 2. February 2025
The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could think that there would be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a bigger ambition to bet, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the locals surviving on the tiny local wages, there are 2 popular styles of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are unbelievably small, but then the prizes are also very high. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that many do not buy a card with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the United Kingston football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the very rich of the nation and tourists. Up till a short time ago, there was a considerably substantial tourist industry, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected violence have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has cropped up, it is not understood how well the vacationing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive till things get better is simply unknown.
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