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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may think that there would be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be operating the other way, with the awful economic conditions leading to a bigger desire to bet, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way out of the crisis.

For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the tiny local money, there are two common forms of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the odds of succeeding are surprisingly small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that many don’t purchase a ticket with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the British soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the state and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a extremely big sightseeing business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated crime have carved into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. 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, both of which have table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the market has deflated by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has resulted, it is not understood how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive until conditions improve is basically not known.