The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could envision that there would be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the awful market conditions creating a bigger desire to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the situation.

For most of the citizens surviving on the meager local earnings, there are 2 established types of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the chances of hitting are surprisingly small, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that most don’t purchase a card with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the very rich of the country and travelers. Up till a short while ago, there was a incredibly substantial vacationing industry, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated bloodshed have carved into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, 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 have gaming machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very 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 municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the economy has contracted by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how healthy the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around till things get better is basically unknown.