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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could envision that there would be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the atrocious economic conditions creating a greater ambition to gamble, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the crisis.

For the majority of the people surviving on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 common forms of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are extremely small, but then the prizes are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who understand the idea that most do not purchase a ticket with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the national or the British soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pander to the very rich of the nation and travelers. Up until a short time ago, there was a incredibly big vacationing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected crime have carved into this trade.

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 gambling hall, which has just the slots. 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 offer table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the economy has diminished by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not understood how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry through till things get better is merely unknown.