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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might imagine that there might be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the desperate market circumstances creating a greater ambition to bet, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the crisis.

For many of the locals subsisting on the abysmal nearby wages, there are two dominant forms of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the odds of profiting are surprisingly tiny, but then the jackpots are also very large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the subject that most don’t buy a card with an actual assumption of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the extremely rich of the society and travelers. Until recently, there was a very substantial vacationing business, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated conflict 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 slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer slot machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how healthy the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through until conditions improve is simply unknown.