The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could think that there would be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the crucial economic conditions leading to a higher ambition to wager, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the problems.

For the majority of the people surviving on the abysmal local money, there are 2 established forms of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of winning are surprisingly small, but then the prizes are also remarkably high. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the subject that the majority don’t buy a card with an actual expectation of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the British soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the astonishingly rich of the state and sightseers. Until recently, there was a very large tourist business, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected violence have carved into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and crime that has cropped up, it is not known how well the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry through till things improve is merely not known.