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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a higher desire to wager, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.

For most of the citizens living on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 established types of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the chances of winning are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also extremely high. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the subject that most don’t buy a card with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the astonishingly rich of the nation and tourists. Up till a short while ago, there was a incredibly big tourist business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. 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 pair of which have 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, the pair of which have gaming machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the economy has contracted by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has resulted, it isn’t understood how well the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through till conditions get better is simply unknown.