The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be working the other way around, with the awful market circumstances leading to a greater ambition to play, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the crisis.

For almost all of the people subsisting on the meager local wages, there are two popular types of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the chances of succeeding are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also very big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the subject that the lion’s share do not purchase a ticket with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, mollycoddle the very rich of the nation and vacationers. Up until not long ago, there was a exceptionally substantial tourist business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected conflict have carved into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the market has shrunk by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has resulted, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through until conditions get better is merely unknown.