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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you may think that there might be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the awful economic conditions creating a greater eagerness to play, to try and find a fast win, a way from the crisis.

For most of the citizens subsisting on the tiny local money, there are two popular styles of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of hitting are surprisingly low, but then the prizes are also very large. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that the lion’s share do not purchase a card with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the UK football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the astonishingly rich of the society and tourists. Up till recently, there was a extremely large sightseeing business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected crime have carved into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five 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 only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive till things get better is simply not known.