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The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might envision that there would be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the critical market conditions creating a bigger ambition to bet, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the situation.

For almost all of the people living on the meager local money, there are 2 common types of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the odds of hitting are surprisingly tiny, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a ticket with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the national or the English football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pander to the considerably rich of the state and tourists. Until recently, there was a exceptionally big tourist business, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 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 just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have video poker machines and tables.

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

Seeing as that the market has diminished by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it isn’t understood how healthy the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around till conditions get better is simply not known.