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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be working the other way around, with the awful economic conditions creating a higher desire to wager, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.

For nearly all of the citizens living on the meager local money, there are two dominant styles of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the chances of hitting are unbelievably tiny, but then the winnings are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a card with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pamper the extremely rich of the nation and travelers. Up until a short while ago, there was a considerably substantial vacationing industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected conflict have carved into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slots. 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, the pair of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer video poker machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the economy has diminished by beyond 40% in recent years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has arisen, it is not understood how well the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will survive till things improve is merely unknown.