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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may think that there might be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the other way, with the critical market conditions leading to a bigger ambition to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the difficulty.

For almost all of the locals surviving on the meager local earnings, there are two dominant styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the odds of profiting are remarkably low, but then the winnings are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the subject that many do not purchase a card with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the UK football leagues and involves determining the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, look after the very rich of the society and tourists. Up until recently, there was a extremely substantial tourist industry, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime have cut into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, 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 pair of which contain table games, 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 offer gaming machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the market has deflated by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, 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 on until things get better is merely unknown.