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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be functioning the other way around, with the desperate economic circumstances leading to a greater ambition to play, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the situation.

For most of the people subsisting on the tiny local money, there are two established styles of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of succeeding are surprisingly small, but then the jackpots are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that the lion’s share don’t purchase a card with an actual expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pander to the astonishingly rich of the country and tourists. Up till recently, there was a very substantial vacationing industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected violence have cut into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite 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.

Since the economy has contracted by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has come to pass, it is not known how well the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will still be around until conditions improve is merely not known.