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The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might think that there might be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be working the other way around, with the awful economic circumstances creating a higher ambition to gamble, to try and find a quick win, a way from the problems.

For most of the citizens subsisting on the tiny local money, there are two popular types of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also remarkably large. It’s been said by economists who look at the subject that many do not purchase a ticket with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pander to the extremely rich of the state and sightseers. Up till a short time ago, there was a incredibly substantial vacationing business, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated conflict have cut into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 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 machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

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

Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions get better is basically unknown.