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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could envision that there might be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be operating the other way, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a higher desire to play, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the situation.

For nearly all of the locals living on the meager local earnings, there are 2 dominant styles of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the chances of winning are unbelievably small, but then the winnings are also very big. It’s been said by economists who understand the subject that most don’t buy a ticket with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is built on either the national or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pander to the very rich of the nation and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably large tourist industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected crime have carved into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slots 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 slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

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

Seeing as that the market has shrunk by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has come to pass, it isn’t known how well the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on till things improve is simply not known.