The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may envision that there might be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the critical market conditions leading to a bigger desire to gamble, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the crisis.

For the majority of the people subsisting on the meager nearby money, there are two dominant forms of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the chances of profiting are unbelievably low, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by economists who understand the subject that many don’t buy a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on either the local or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the very rich of the nation and sightseers. Up till recently, there was a considerably substantial vacationing business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected bloodshed 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 den, which has only slot machine games. 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 pair of which have gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer video poker machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has deflated by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has arisen, it is not understood how healthy the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry through until conditions get better is simply unknown.