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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may imagine that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be working the other way, with the awful market conditions leading to a greater ambition to bet, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the difficulty.

For most of the locals living on the meager local wages, there are 2 popular forms of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the chances of succeeding are surprisingly tiny, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that the majority do not purchase a card with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is based on either the local or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, cater to the very rich of the nation and tourists. Up until recently, there was a considerably large vacationing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated conflict have cut into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the economy has deflated by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how healthy the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive until conditions improve is simply not known.