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The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may think that there might be very little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the desperate economic conditions leading to a greater eagerness to gamble, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.

For nearly all of the locals subsisting on the meager nearby money, there are 2 dominant styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of profiting are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that most do not buy a ticket with a real belief of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pamper the extremely rich of the state and sightseers. Until a short while ago, there was a very substantial vacationing industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated violence have carved into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two 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, each of which have slot machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the market has contracted by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not well-known how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through till things get better is simply unknown.