The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may imagine that there might be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the critical economic circumstances leading to a greater desire to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the problems.

For most of the people surviving on the tiny nearby money, there are 2 established types of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of profiting are remarkably small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who look at the subject that the majority don’t purchase a card with a real expectation of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the English football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, look after the exceedingly rich of the country and travelers. Up till recently, there was a extremely large vacationing industry, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated 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 slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. 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 two of which contain gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer slot machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the market has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and violence that has resulted, it is not understood how well the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive till things improve is merely unknown.