The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way, with the awful market circumstances creating a bigger ambition to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the situation.

For many of the people living on the meager nearby wages, there are 2 dominant styles of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the chances of winning are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that many don’t purchase a ticket with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, cater to the extremely rich of the country and tourists. Until a short time ago, there was a considerably large sightseeing industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected bloodshed 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 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming tables, 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 offer slot machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has contracted by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has come about, it is not well-known how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive until things improve is simply unknown.