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The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there might be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the atrocious economic conditions creating a higher desire to wager, to attempt to find a fast win, a way from the crisis.

For the majority of the citizens subsisting on the meager local money, there are two established forms of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the odds of hitting are extremely small, but then the winnings are also extremely large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the idea that many don’t purchase a card with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the British football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the considerably rich of the state and sightseers. Up till a short while ago, there was a extremely substantial vacationing business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime have carved into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has 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 two of which have gaming machines and table games.

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

Since the economy has deflated by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has resulted, it is not known how well the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive till conditions get better is basically not known.