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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might envision that there would be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way, with the critical economic circumstances leading to a bigger eagerness to gamble, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.

For almost all of the locals surviving on the meager nearby wages, there are two popular types of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of winning are extremely tiny, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that many do not purchase a card with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the national or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pamper the astonishingly rich of the country and vacationers. Until not long ago, there was a extremely substantial vacationing industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected violence have carved into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video 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 casinos and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the economy has contracted by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has resulted, it isn’t understood how healthy the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive till conditions improve is simply unknown.