The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might think that there would be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the awful economic conditions creating a larger ambition to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way from the problems.

For many of the locals surviving on the meager local earnings, there are two popular styles of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the odds of succeeding are surprisingly small, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the concept that many do not purchase a card with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, cater to the astonishingly rich of the state and sightseers. Up till not long ago, there was a extremely big sightseeing business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected crime have carved into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two 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 slots. 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 pair of which offer table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of two 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 contracted by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has resulted, it is not known how well the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around until conditions get better is basically unknown.