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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there would be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be operating the other way, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a higher eagerness to play, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.

For the majority of the citizens surviving on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 popular styles of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the chances of succeeding are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also extremely big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at 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 local or the British soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pamper the very rich of the state and travelers. Up until recently, there was a extremely big vacationing industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated violence have carved into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 just the slots. 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, the two of which offer table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has video poker machines and table games.

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

Since the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has cropped up, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive until things get better is merely not known.