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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could think that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the awful economic conditions leading to a greater ambition to play, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the problems.

For many of the people subsisting on the abysmal nearby wages, there are 2 common styles of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the odds of winning are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that most do not buy a ticket with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the UK football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pander to the astonishingly rich of the state and travelers. Until recently, there was a very substantial vacationing business, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated bloodshed 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 slots, 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 has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair 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 is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the market has deflated by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on till conditions improve is basically not known.