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The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there would be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the awful market circumstances creating a greater desire to wager, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the difficulty.

For most of the people surviving on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 established forms of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of succeeding are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also remarkably high. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that many do not buy a ticket with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the British football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the astonishingly rich of the nation and sightseers. Until a short while ago, there was a considerably large tourist industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected violence have carved into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only 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 offer table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has gaming machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has shrunk by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has arisen, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry on till things get better is merely unknown.