The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could think that there would be very little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the critical economic circumstances creating a bigger desire to bet, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the situation.

For the majority of the locals subsisting on the meager local earnings, there are two dominant types of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the chances of winning are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also remarkably big. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that most do not purchase a ticket with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the English football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, look after the astonishingly rich of the nation and sightseers. Up until recently, there was a very substantial vacationing business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated violence have carved into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machines. 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 contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting 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 beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has come about, it isn’t known how healthy the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around until things get better is simply not known.