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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might imagine that there might be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a larger ambition to gamble, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the situation.

For the majority of the people subsisting on the tiny local money, there are 2 popular types of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the chances of succeeding are extremely tiny, but then the prizes are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by economists who understand the subject that most do not buy a card with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the English football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, mollycoddle the incredibly rich of the country and tourists. Up until recently, there was a very substantial tourist industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated bloodshed have carved into this trade.

Amongst 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 gambling hall, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses 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 aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the market has diminished by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive until things get better is basically unknown.