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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might envision that there might be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the desperate economic circumstances leading to a higher ambition to gamble, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way from the situation.

For nearly all of the locals surviving on the meager local money, there are two common styles of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the odds of profiting are extremely low, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that the lion’s share don’t purchase a card with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pander to the exceedingly rich of the country and sightseers. Up till not long ago, there was a considerably large sightseeing business, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated conflict have cut into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, 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, the two of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

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

Since the market has deflated by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry on till things get better is simply unknown.