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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the atrocious market conditions creating a higher eagerness to gamble, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the situation.

For most of the locals subsisting on the meager local wages, there are 2 dominant forms of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of hitting are surprisingly small, but then the prizes are also remarkably big. It’s been said by financial experts who study the idea that many don’t purchase a ticket with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, mollycoddle the very rich of the state and tourists. Up until not long ago, there was a considerably big tourist business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated violence have cut into this market.

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

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has deflated by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has come about, it is not known how well the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on until conditions improve is merely unknown.