The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could envision that there might be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the awful market conditions leading to a bigger ambition to gamble, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.

For nearly all of the people living on the abysmal nearby wages, there are two popular types of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who study the subject that many don’t buy a card with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the English football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the considerably rich of the country and sightseers. Up till a short while ago, there was a very large tourist industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected conflict have carved 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 den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, slot machines 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 slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the economy has shrunk by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it is not well-known how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on until things improve is basically unknown.