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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could envision that there might be little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a bigger desire to play, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the crisis.

For most of the people subsisting on the meager nearby wages, there are two established types of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of profiting are unbelievably small, but then the winnings are also very large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the idea that many do not purchase a ticket with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is founded on one of the national or the United Kingston football leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, look after the astonishingly rich of the state and sightseers. Until a short time ago, there was a considerably big sightseeing industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated violence have cut into this market.

Among 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 Casino, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have video poker machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the economy has diminished by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry on until conditions get better is simply not known.