The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the awful market conditions leading to a bigger ambition to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the crisis.

For nearly all of the locals surviving on the meager nearby earnings, there are two dominant styles of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of profiting are extremely low, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the concept that many don’t buy a ticket with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is founded on either the local or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the extremely rich of the country and vacationers. Up till a short time ago, there was a extremely substantial vacationing industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated 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 one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the market has diminished by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has arisen, it is not known how well the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry through till conditions improve is simply not known.