The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could think that there would be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the atrocious economic conditions leading to a larger ambition to gamble, to attempt to find a fast win, a way from the crisis.

For most of the locals subsisting on the tiny local money, there are 2 established types of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are unbelievably tiny, but then the winnings are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that most do not buy a card with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pander to the extremely rich of the nation and sightseers. Up until a short time ago, there was a very substantial vacationing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected bloodshed have cut into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. 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, both of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has video poker machines and tables.

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

Seeing as that the market has shrunk by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has cropped up, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive until things get better is merely not known.