The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could think that there would be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be working the other way around, with the desperate economic circumstances leading to a higher desire to play, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the difficulty.

For the majority of the people subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are two dominant styles of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the odds of hitting are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also extremely large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the concept that the majority do not purchase a ticket with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the British football leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pamper the considerably rich of the nation and tourists. Up till not long ago, there was a exceptionally large sightseeing industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected conflict have carved into this market.

Among 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 only slot machine games. 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 two of which have table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has slot machines and tables.

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

Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how well the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will still be around till conditions get better is merely not known.