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The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may imagine that there would be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be operating the opposite way, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a bigger eagerness to play, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the crisis.

For many of the locals surviving on the tiny local wages, there are two dominant forms of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the odds of profiting are surprisingly small, but then the winnings are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that most do not buy a ticket with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the extremely rich of the state and tourists. Until not long ago, there was a very substantial tourist business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected crime have carved into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has 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 halls and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the economy has shrunk by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how healthy the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on till things improve is merely unknown.