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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might envision that there would be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the crucial economic circumstances creating a higher desire to play, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.

For the majority of the people living on the tiny nearby wages, there are two dominant types of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of hitting are remarkably small, but then the winnings are also extremely big. It’s been said by financial experts who study the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a ticket with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the English football leagues and involves determining the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the nation and tourists. Up till a short while ago, there was a very substantial sightseeing industry, founded on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated violence have cut into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has slot machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the market has diminished by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has resulted, it is not known how healthy the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through until things get better is merely unknown.