The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you may think that there would be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the desperate market conditions creating a bigger ambition to play, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the problems.

For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the tiny nearby earnings, there are 2 established types of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the chances of hitting are extremely small, but then the winnings are also remarkably big. It’s been said by economists who understand the idea that the lion’s share do not buy a card with the rational expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the UK soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, cater to the very rich of the society and tourists. Up till a short time ago, there was a exceptionally big tourist industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated crime have carved into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 gambling den, which has just the slot machines. 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 pair of which offer table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer video poker machines and tables.

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

Seeing as that the economy has contracted by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it is not known how well the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through till conditions improve is simply unknown.