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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be very little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be working the other way around, with the atrocious economic conditions leading to a bigger ambition to bet, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.

For almost all of the people surviving on the tiny local wages, there are 2 popular styles of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the chances of winning are extremely small, but then the prizes are also remarkably big. It’s been said by economists who look at the subject that the majority don’t buy a ticket with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the British soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the very rich of the nation and sightseers. Up till not long ago, there was a exceptionally substantial sightseeing industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated violence have carved into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer 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 has gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the market has deflated by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has cropped up, it is not known how well the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive till conditions get better is simply not known.

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