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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the desperate economic circumstances creating a greater ambition to wager, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the crisis.

For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are two popular styles of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the chances of succeeding are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that many don’t purchase a card with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, look after the astonishingly rich of the country and vacationers. Up till recently, there was a considerably big sightseeing industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected crime have cut into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have slot machines and table games.

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

Given that the market has contracted by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has cropped up, it is not understood how well the vacationing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive till conditions improve is simply unknown.