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The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could think that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be working the other way, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a bigger desire to play, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the crisis.

For almost all of the locals living on the meager local money, there are two dominant styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of profiting are unbelievably small, but then the prizes are also extremely large. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that many don’t buy a card with a real belief of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the national or the UK football leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, look after the exceedingly rich of the society and vacationers. Up until not long ago, there was a extremely substantial vacationing business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated violence have carved into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 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 only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, slots 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 have slot machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 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 economy has contracted by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it is not understood how healthy the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will survive till things improve is merely unknown.