The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could envision that there would be little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the critical market circumstances creating a greater eagerness to bet, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the problems.

For the majority of the citizens subsisting on the meager nearby wages, there are two dominant styles of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of hitting are remarkably tiny, but then the winnings are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that the majority do not buy a card with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the English football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the astonishingly rich of the society and sightseers. Up till not long ago, there was a very large tourist business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated violence have carved into this market.

Among 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 gambling den, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slots and video poker 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 dens and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the economy has diminished by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has resulted, it isn’t known how healthy the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will survive till conditions get better is merely unknown.