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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you might envision that there would be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the critical economic conditions creating a larger eagerness to wager, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the crisis.

For nearly all of the locals surviving on the tiny local wages, there are two established styles of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the chances of winning are surprisingly small, but then the jackpots are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that the lion’s share do not purchase a ticket with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, look after the extremely rich of the state and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a extremely large vacationing business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected conflict have carved into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 Casino, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have video poker machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the economy has deflated by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t known how well the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry through until things get better is simply not known.