The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the atrocious economic conditions creating a greater desire to gamble, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way from the situation.

For almost all of the locals subsisting on the meager local earnings, there are 2 common types of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of hitting are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a card with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on either the national or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pander to the very rich of the nation and travelers. Up until a short while ago, there was a extremely big tourist industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated crime have cut into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 hall, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both 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, the two of which have gaming machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has arisen, it is not well-known how healthy the tourist industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive till conditions get better is merely unknown.