The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could envision that there would be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the desperate economic circumstances leading to a greater desire to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.

For many of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 established forms of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of hitting are remarkably low, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the idea that many don’t purchase a ticket with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the UK soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the nation and tourists. Up until recently, there was a incredibly large sightseeing business, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected 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 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. 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, the pair of which offer table games, 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 gambling halls and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the economy has contracted by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has resulted, it isn’t well-known how well the vacationing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will be alive till conditions improve is simply not known.