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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the awful market circumstances creating a larger desire to wager, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the problems.

For most of the citizens surviving on the tiny local wages, there are 2 established types of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the chances of profiting are extremely small, but then the winnings are also remarkably large. It’s been said by economists who study the subject that many don’t purchase a ticket with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the domestic or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, cater to the extremely rich of the nation and tourists. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably big tourist industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected crime have carved into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. 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 two of which offer table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the market has contracted by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and crime that has come about, it isn’t understood how healthy the vacationing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will be alive until things improve is simply unknown.