The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might think that there might be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be operating the other way, with the awful economic circumstances leading to a larger eagerness to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the crisis.

For many of the citizens subsisting on the meager local money, there are two established forms of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the chances of winning are unbelievably low, but then the jackpots are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that many do not buy a ticket with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the country and sightseers. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably large sightseeing industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated crime have cut 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 Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t well-known how well the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will still be around till conditions get better is merely unknown.