The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there would be little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be working the other way around, with the awful market conditions creating a bigger ambition to gamble, to try and find a quick win, a way from the difficulty.

For many of the people subsisting on the tiny local wages, there are 2 established styles of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of winning are extremely small, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that most do not purchase a ticket with the rational belief of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, look after the astonishingly rich of the state and travelers. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably big sightseeing business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected violence have carved 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 one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

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

Seeing as that the market has contracted by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it isn’t known how well the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will still be around till conditions get better is basically unknown.