The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be operating the other way, with the atrocious market conditions leading to a greater desire to wager, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.

For many of the locals surviving on the abysmal nearby money, there are 2 established forms of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the chances of profiting are surprisingly tiny, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the concept that the lion’s share don’t purchase a ticket with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is founded on one of the national or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the very rich of the state and tourists. Until recently, there was a considerably large tourist industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected crime have cut into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer 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, the pair of which have video poker machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 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 economy has shrunk by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it isn’t known how healthy the vacationing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive till conditions get better is merely not known.