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The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could think that there would be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the atrocious market conditions leading to a larger desire to gamble, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the problems.

For nearly all of the locals surviving on the abysmal local wages, there are two dominant styles of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the chances of winning are extremely low, but then the winnings are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a card with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, look after the extremely rich of the state and vacationers. Up till not long ago, there was a very substantial vacationing business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime have cut into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 hall, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

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

Given that the economy has deflated by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t known how well the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around till conditions improve is merely not known.