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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may think that there might be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the crucial market circumstances leading to a bigger desire to wager, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.

For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the meager local earnings, there are two common forms of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of profiting are extremely small, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the idea that most do not buy a ticket with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the English football leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, look after the very rich of the nation and sightseers. Up till not long ago, there was a extremely large tourist business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected violence have carved into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits 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 blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the economy has contracted by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has resulted, it is not understood how well the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive till conditions improve is simply not known.