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The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could think that there might be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the atrocious economic conditions leading to a higher ambition to gamble, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the situation.

For many of the locals subsisting on the meager nearby earnings, there are 2 common styles of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the odds of profiting are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also extremely big. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that many do not buy a ticket with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the English football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the astonishingly rich of the state and travelers. Up till a short time ago, there was a considerably large tourist industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated violence have carved into this trade.

Amongst 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 just the 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, both of which have 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, the pair of which has gaming machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has deflated by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has arisen, it is not known 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 until things get better is simply not known.