The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could envision that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the awful economic circumstances creating a larger ambition to wager, to try and find a fast win, a way from the problems.

For almost all of the people living on the meager nearby wages, there are two dominant types of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of winning are surprisingly small, but then the winnings are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the concept that many do not buy a ticket with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, look after the considerably rich of the state and travelers. Up until not long ago, there was a extremely big tourist business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated violence 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 slots, and the Plumtree Casino, 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, both of which offer table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the market has diminished by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has arisen, it is not known how well the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on till conditions get better is simply unknown.