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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may envision that there would be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the atrocious market conditions leading to a higher desire to gamble, to try and find a fast win, a way from the crisis.

For many of the citizens living on the meager local wages, there are 2 dominant forms of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of hitting are extremely tiny, but then the jackpots are also remarkably high. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that the majority do not buy a ticket with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the British football leagues and involves determining the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the extremely rich of the state and tourists. Until a short time ago, there was a extremely large tourist industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated crime have cut into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have slot machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the market has deflated by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and crime that has arisen, it is not understood how healthy the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around until conditions improve is basically unknown.