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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be operating the other way, with the desperate economic conditions leading to a greater eagerness to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the situation.

For almost all of the locals surviving on the abysmal local wages, there are two common forms of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of winning are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that the majority don’t buy a ticket with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the English football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the exceedingly rich of the nation and travelers. Up until a short time ago, there was a incredibly large sightseeing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated crime have carved into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slots and video 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 alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has contracted by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has arisen, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through till things get better is merely unknown.