The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the desperate economic circumstances leading to a greater desire to play, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the crisis.

For many of the locals living on the tiny local earnings, there are 2 popular styles of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of profiting are remarkably low, but then the winnings are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by economists who study the subject that the lion’s share don’t purchase a card with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the domestic or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, cater to the astonishingly rich of the nation and tourists. Up until recently, there was a very big sightseeing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected bloodshed have carved into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, 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, the two of which have gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have slot machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the market has deflated by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has come to pass, it is not understood how healthy the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on till things get better is merely not known.