The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there would be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way, with the desperate market circumstances creating a greater ambition to gamble, to try and find a fast win, a way from the crisis.

For many of the locals surviving on the tiny nearby money, there are 2 popular types of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the odds of succeeding are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also extremely large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the idea that most do not buy a card with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the English football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, look after the extremely rich of the society and sightseers. Until recently, there was a incredibly big sightseeing business, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected bloodshed have cut into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the economy has shrunk by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has come about, it isn’t understood how well the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around until conditions get better is simply unknown.