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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there might be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the critical market circumstances creating a larger eagerness to play, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the problems.

For most of the locals surviving on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 dominant forms of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of profiting are surprisingly small, but then the prizes are also very large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the subject that most don’t purchase a ticket with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the United Kingston football leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pamper the astonishingly rich of the nation and tourists. Up till not long ago, there was a extremely substantial vacationing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated bloodshed have cut 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 slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have slot machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 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 beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it isn’t understood how well the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will survive till things improve is simply not known.