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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may imagine that there would be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be working the other way, with the crucial economic conditions creating a bigger ambition to bet, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.

For many of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are two popular types of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the odds of hitting are extremely low, but then the prizes are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that the lion’s share don’t purchase a card with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the English football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, pander to the considerably rich of the state and tourists. Up until not long ago, there was a extremely big vacationing industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated violence have cut into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is 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.

Given that the market has deflated by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has come to pass, it is not known how well the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry on till conditions improve is merely not known.