The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might think that there might be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the atrocious market circumstances creating a greater ambition to play, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the crisis.

For most of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are two dominant types of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the chances of succeeding are remarkably low, but then the winnings are also very big. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the idea that the majority do not purchase a ticket with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the British football leagues and involves determining the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, cater to the astonishingly rich of the country and travelers. Until a short while ago, there was a considerably large tourist business, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected violence have cut into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five 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 slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has come about, it isn’t well-known how well the vacationing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive till things improve is merely unknown.