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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a greater ambition to gamble, to try and find a quick win, a way from the difficulty.

For many of the locals surviving on the meager nearby wages, there are 2 common forms of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also extremely large. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that the majority don’t purchase a card with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on either the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the considerably rich of the nation and sightseers. Up until a short time ago, there was a extremely large vacationing industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated violence have carved into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer slot machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has shrunk by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive until conditions improve is basically unknown.