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The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you could envision that there would be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be working the other way around, with the desperate market circumstances creating a higher desire to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.

For almost all of the locals surviving on the tiny nearby money, there are two dominant types of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of winning are surprisingly small, but then the jackpots are also extremely high. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the idea that most do not buy a card with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the extremely rich of the society and sightseers. Up until recently, there was a considerably large tourist industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated crime have cut into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 gambling hall, 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 pair of which have 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, each of which has gaming machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also two 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 deflated by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has cropped up, it is not understood how well the tourist industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around until things get better is simply not known.