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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might think that there would be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the awful economic circumstances creating a larger ambition to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way from the problems.

For most of the people living on the tiny local money, there are 2 dominant types of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of profiting are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that many do not buy a ticket with an actual assumption of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the British football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the incredibly rich of the state and sightseers. Up until a short time ago, there was a incredibly big vacationing industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected conflict have carved into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. 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, both of which have gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

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

Seeing as that the market has contracted by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has arisen, it is not well-known how healthy the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive till conditions improve is merely not known.