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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might envision that there might be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a greater ambition to play, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the difficulty.

For most of the citizens surviving on the tiny local wages, there are two established styles of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the chances of succeeding are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also remarkably big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that many don’t purchase a ticket with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, cater to the astonishingly rich of the society and sightseers. Until a short time ago, there was a very large tourist industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated conflict have cut into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has video poker machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that 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 known how well the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry through until conditions improve is simply not known.