The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you may envision that there might be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the crucial economic circumstances leading to a higher eagerness to wager, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the problems.

For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the tiny local money, there are two common forms of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who look at the subject that the lion’s share don’t purchase a card with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the British soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the extremely rich of the country and tourists. Up until a short while ago, there was a extremely big tourist industry, centered 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 two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only 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, both of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has diminished by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has come about, it is not well-known how well the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry on till things get better is basically not known.