The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you may envision that there would be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the atrocious market conditions creating a higher desire to gamble, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the crisis.

For most of the locals subsisting on the abysmal nearby wages, there are two dominant types of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the winnings are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by financial experts who study the idea that most don’t buy a card with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the considerably rich of the society and sightseers. Up till a short time ago, there was a considerably big sightseeing industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated violence have cut into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 just the 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, the two of which have table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer slot machines and table games.

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

Since the economy has deflated by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has resulted, it isn’t understood how healthy the tourist industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will still be around until conditions get better is simply not known.