The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may think that there might be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a larger eagerness to wager, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the situation.

For almost all of the citizens living on the tiny nearby earnings, there are two established types of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the odds of succeeding are extremely low, but then the winnings are also remarkably big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that most do not buy a ticket with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the British football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, cater to the extremely rich of the society and vacationers. Up till not long ago, there was a exceptionally large tourist industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated bloodshed have cut into this trade.

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 has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, slots 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 video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

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

Given that the economy has contracted by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how well the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry through until things get better is simply unknown.