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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may imagine that there would be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the critical economic conditions leading to a bigger ambition to wager, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the situation.

For almost all of the people living on the meager local wages, there are 2 common forms of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of winning are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that the majority don’t buy a ticket with an actual expectation of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, cater to the very rich of the state and sightseers. Up till recently, there was a incredibly big vacationing business, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected bloodshed have carved into this market.

Amongst 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 slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

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

Since the market has shrunk by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has arisen, it is not known how well the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will be alive till things get better is merely not known.